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Research-driven articles exploring movement patterns, commercial performance, regeneration,
and urban change.

How Footfall and Location Intelligence Support Smarter Retail Site Selection

Choosing a new retail location is a high-stakes decision. The right site can put a brand in front of its ideal customers and create sustainable commercial growth. The wrong one can tie up significant capital in a location that never delivers.

Validating a Site Before You Sign the Lease

How to validate a retail site before signing the lease, covering footfall, site selection and catchment area analysis, and the checks that reduce risk.

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The Benchmark

Compare how places perform across every geography.

Benchmark locations, districts, and commercial environments using live behavioural intelligence
and movement data.

Live ranking across every UK district.

Continuous performance scoring across 340+ UK cities and districts

Indexed against 2019 baselines and live peer benchmarks

Behavioural, movement, and commercial signals combined

Drill from national rankings down to postcode-level resolution

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Customer stories

See how organisations use intelligence to guide decisions.

Explore how retail, real estate, and public-sector teams use huq to support investment, planning, and regeneration strategies.

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Retail

Retail expansion planning at scale.

How a national brand used live catchment intelligence to short-list 12 new sites in one quarter.

4.2×

faster site selection

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Government

Town-centre regeneration impact.

A district council used huq to evidence post- investment recovery and secure further funding.

+£4.2m

measured commercial uplift

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Real Estate

Commercial leasing analysis.

A REIT replaced quarterly market research with continuous catchment intelligence across its portfolio.

+38%

qualified tenant pipeline

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