Stephen Springham
Partner, Head of UK Markets
Global Headquarters, GB
Latest research
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Autumn Budget: more income tax, more VAT, no money back, no guarantees
This week’s Retail Note reflects on this week’s Autumn Budget through a retail lens.
28 November 2025
Retail & Leisure
UK Retail Sales Dashboard
A monthly overview of UK retail sales performance, including key metrics on core sub-sectors, and ecommerce.
21 November 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Retail sales: the curse of Black Friday strikes?
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the October retail sales figures from the ONS, which were neither as weak as predicted nor reported.
21 November 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Do the ONS Know it’s Christmas?
This week’s Retail Note gives Knight Frank’s Christmas retail sales predictions and details why they may differ from official data. Plus, a dissect of all that is wrong with Black Friday.
14 November 2025
Retail & Leisure
Retail Warehousing Dashboard
A concise quarterly synopsis of activity in the UK retail warehousing market.
13 November 2025
Retail & Leisure
Central London Retail Market Dashboard
The Knight Frank Central London Retail Market quarterly update on key data and current market sentiment.
10 November 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Q3 Retail: Wishin’ and Hopin’.
This week’s Retail Note showcases Knight Frank’s Q3 Retail Monitor, our quarterly update of key retailing metrics.
31 October 2025
Retail & Leisure
Retail Monitor
The Knight Frank Retail Monitor provides a quarterly update on key data across all retail sub-sectors and current market sentiment.
30 October 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Amazon Fresh: on the turn
This week’s Retail Note focuses on Amazon’s decision to pull the plug on Amazon Fresh in the UK - and how so many analysts got it wrong.
03 October 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note | Retail sales: hold your horses
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the May retail sales figures from the ONS, which were predictably weak.
20 June 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Retail sales: as good as it gets?
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the April retail sales figures from the ONS, which exceeded even the highest expectations.
23 May 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Retail sales: reason to believe
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the March / Q1 retail sales figures from the ONS, which were defiantly strong.
25 April 2025
Build-to-rent and Multifamily
UK Cities DNA Compendium: The evolving economic DNA of the North East
In the first of our two part series, Stephen Springham, Partner, Head of UK Markets Research at Knight Frank, introduces the UK Cities DNA Compendium, with key highlights from the North East.
09 April 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note | Retail sales: solid as rock?
This week’s Retail Note focuses on the February retail sales figures from the ONS, which, while not perfect, still remain one of the brighter spots in the UK economy.
03 April 2025
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note | Retail: the new political football?
This Retail Note analyses the performance of the retail market over Christmas – with strong retailer figures contradicting particularly negative media narrative.
10 January 2025
Occupiers
UK Cities DNA | A Tale of 10 Cities
Every town and city in the UK has it’s own unique DNA, which is constantly evolving and mutating. We look at the key UK cities and what their DNA looks like in the next 25 years.
17 December 2024
Specialist sectors
UK Cities DNA | What defines and shapes our towns and cities?
What defines our towns and cities? What shapes their identity? What makes them tick? We explore the make up of the UK cities from the macro to the micro.
17 December 2024
Occupiers
UK Cities DNA | to Refurb Refit Reposition or Repurpose
Retrofit? Refurbish? Reposition? There's no one-size-fits-all solution, but we have crunched the numbers and identified a range of factors which drive value, viability and the potential to drive short and long term performance.
17 December 2024
