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Retail and leisure
Retail and leisure insight: merging the macro with the micro.
Our research provides a comprehensive understanding of every facet of the retail and leisure industry.
We cover all channels, including high street stores, shopping centres, retail warehousing, supermarkets, food and beverage facilities, and leisure. We work across geographies, with full UK market coverage, and cater to a variety of stakeholder bases, including consumers, occupiers, landlords, investors, and developers.
Our published research and thought leadership is also deployed on a local- or asset-specific level, in a deal support, advisory or consultancy capacity.
Latest research on Retail and leisure
Retail & Leisure
UK Retail Sales Dashboard
A monthly overview of UK retail sales performance, including key metrics on core sub-sectors, and ecommerce.
23 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: narrative vs numbers
This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for December from the ONS, which were stronger than anyone predicted, but are somehow being construed as being negative.
23 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: decent = ‘drab’
This Retail Note analyses this week’s newsflow of post-Christmas reporting, including a predictably downbeat release from the BRC on retail sales.
16 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: so far, so decent
This Retail Note analyses the performance of the retail market over Christmas and tries to make sense of the usual mass of contradictions.
09 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: narrative vs numbers
This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for December from the ONS, which were stronger than anyone predicted, but are somehow being construed as being negative.
23 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: decent = ‘drab’
This Retail Note analyses this week’s newsflow of post-Christmas reporting, including a predictably downbeat release from the BRC on retail sales.
16 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: so far, so decent
This Retail Note analyses the performance of the retail market over Christmas and tries to make sense of the usual mass of contradictions.
09 January 2026
Market updates
Quarterly updates and data dashboards covering consumer, occupier, and investment markets.
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
Investment
UK Real Estate Navigator
The UK Real Estate Navigator outlines the key occupier and investment trends across the different sectors within commercial real estate.
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
UK Retail Sales Dashboard
A monthly overview of UK retail sales performance, including key metrics on core sub-sectors, and ecommerce.
23 January 2026
Thought leadership
Insight publications exploring the latest themes and trends shaping the industry landscape.
Retail & Leisure
Retail News Issue 14
Foodstores are back in vogue with investors – we explore why the investment case is so compelling, from a detailed consumer, occupier, channel, asset class and performance perspective.
20 November 2023
Retail & Leisure
Retailer Watchlist
Retailer distress, CVAs, administrations and fall-out. Our Retailer Watchlist is designed to give markets early warning of potential retail occupier distress.
10 September 2024
Retail & Leisure
Retail News Issue 13: A Retail Renaissance
Assessing how the UK retail market has responded to its 10 Structural Failings to become the top performing CRE asset class in 2023. And explore what future structural change is likely to unfold, particularly around ESG, online and AI.
30 October 2023
The Retail Note
Our weekly recap on the latest happenings in the retail sector.
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: narrative vs numbers
This week’s Retail Note analyses the official retail sales figures for December from the ONS, which were stronger than anyone predicted, but are somehow being construed as being negative.
23 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: decent = ‘drab’
This Retail Note analyses this week’s newsflow of post-Christmas reporting, including a predictably downbeat release from the BRC on retail sales.
16 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Xmas 2025: so far, so decent
This Retail Note analyses the performance of the retail market over Christmas and tries to make sense of the usual mass of contradictions.
09 January 2026
Retail & Leisure
The Retail Note - Retail in 2026: Retaining the Crown
This week’s Retail Note showcases Knight Frank’s latest Retail Investment Update, which reviews activity in 2025 and looks forward (in every sense of the expression) to 2026.
05 January 2026
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
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
A series of six insight papers exploring what other real estate sectors can learn from retail’s fall and unlikely rise again.
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