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Commercial property performance data
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United Kingdom
Commercial property data on how UK retail space performs
Databases tell you who owns a building and what it let for. Huq shows how UK retail property is actually visited, week by week.
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Huq's commercial property data shows how UK retail property performs once it's open. It doesn't hold ownership, rents or sales comparables; it adds visit evidence. For any shopping centre, retail park, high street parade or single unit, see footfall, catchment by postcode, dwell time and tenant cross-visitation, refreshed weekly. Landlords, asset managers, agents and investors use it alongside their property database to back valuations, lettings and acquisitions.
Commercial property data for UK centres and high streets
The overview covers the whole Huq platform, not a property workflow. For commercial property, watch three things: how an area is drawn on the Explore map, the shopping centre and retail centre layers, and the split between visiting and passing traffic. Those are the steps you'd repeat for a scheme you hold, one you're underwriting or a rival retail park.
- Draw any centre, park or parade and get weekly footfall
- Catchment by postcode, drive time and travel time
- Visiting vs passing traffic for a unit or frontage
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What is commercial property data?
In the UK, commercial property data usually means the databases surveyors and agents use every day: ownership, lettings and sales comparables, availability, rateable values and planning history. Those sources answer what a building is, who owns it and what it let or sold for.
Huq doesn't replace them. It holds no rents, comps or title records. Huq adds the performance layer for retail property: how many people visit a centre, retail park or high street, where they come from, who they are, how long they stay and which tenants they share.
That matters most when price evidence is thin or disputed. A landlord can show a scheme's footfall against its town centre; a buyer can check whether a retail park's catchment supports the yield. Huq publishes an 18.7% MAPE in Great Britain against landlord-reported footfall.
What's in your commercial property data from Huq
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Unit and scheme footfall
Weekly totals, average daily footfall and year-on-year change for a single unit, a parade or a whole scheme.
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Catchment and travel time
Where visitors live by postcode, with drive-time and travel-time areas to test the trade area behind a valuation.
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Visiting vs passing traffic
Separate people who stop from people who pass, useful when comparing frontages or making the case for a pitch.
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Tenant cross-visitation
Shared audience between up to 10 location pairs, showing which tenants and nearby schemes draw the same shoppers.
What commercial property data from Huq shows
Three views UK asset and leasing teams use when they assess retail property.
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Scheme against town and region
Compare a centre or retail park with its town centre and regional benchmarks each week, so you can tell an asset problem from a market one.
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Catchment and visitor profile
Map visitors by postcode and profile them by age, gender and purchasing power to show who the scheme actually serves.
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Dwell and tenant overlap
See how long visitors stay and which tenants share them, to support remixing, anchor decisions and letting conversations.
Commercial property data for any UK address
Huq covers any address in the UK: high streets, shopping centres, retail parks, competitors' stores and sites you haven't opened yet. No counters, sensors or cameras needed.
Huq manually validates more than 1,000 locations in each of its 35 markets twice a year, and data refreshes weekly.
How it works
Step 1
Tell us your locations
Add up to five addresses in the form. Your own stores, candidate sites or competitors.
Step 2
We run the analysis
Our team maps each location from observed visitor data.
Step 3
We walk you through it
A short call to take you through what the data shows and what it means for you.
Why UK property teams use Huq for commercial real estate data
- Huq publishes its accuracy by country: an 18.7% median error in Great Britain against landlord-reported footfall.
- JD Sports, a UK retailer, got 25% more precise catchment analysis and 18% lower new-store location risk.
- Ripon BID saw footfall up 164% year on year.
- Trusted by 300+ organisations across 35 markets, including the global insights, research and location intelligence teams at Nike, Adidas, JD Sports and Samsung.
huq's platform gave us valuable data to support a key decision on potential new sites.
Dan Brogden
National Sales Manager, Puccinos
Who it's for
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Retail chains of any size
From five-store retailers planning their next site to global brands: choose locations, track store performance and benchmark against competitors.
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Retail property owners
Show centre performance, support leasing and get the tenant mix right, for landlords, asset managers and brokers.
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Investors and private equity
Check how retail brands and assets actually perform before you buy, and monitor them after.
Everything Huq measures, in one platform
- Footfall: by week, month and year, with totals, average daily footfall, trends, period-on-period change, and visiting vs passing traffic.
- Residents and visitors.
- Catchment and travel time: catchment by postcodes, plus drive-time and travel-time analysis.
- Demographics and profiling: age, gender and purchasing power.
- Behaviour: visit frequency, dwell time, time of day and dayparts, cross-visitation between up to 10 location pairs, and international visitation for tourism.
- Footfall density and transportation mode.
- Places, brands and industries: points of interest, brand locations and brand analysis, industry performance, shopping centre and retail centre types.
- Geo-spend: spend by volume and category at any UK location, via Experian.
- Tools: the Explore map (draw any area or use layers for travel time, catchment, shopping centres, retail centres, brand locations, industries and postcodes), White Space Analysis, and Projects for monitoring many locations and reporting to stakeholders.
- Delivery: the platform, CSV or Excel exports, monthly PDF location reports, and data feeds as Parquet and CSV files into Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage buckets.
- Cadence: data refreshes weekly.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I find commercial property data in the UK?
For ownership, lettings and sales comparables, UK teams typically use commercial property databases, agency research and public records such as HM Land Registry. For how a retail asset performs, meaning footfall, catchment, dwell and tenant overlap, you need visit data, which is what Huq provides.
Can Huq tell me who owns a property or what it let for?
No. Huq doesn't hold ownership, rents, lease terms or sales comparables. It measures how retail property is used: footfall, visiting vs passing traffic, catchment, demographics, dwell time and cross-visitation. Pair it with your property database to add performance evidence to a valuation or letting.
Who provides UK footfall benchmarking data for retail property?
Several providers do, using counters, cameras or modelled data. Huq covers any UK address without hardware and benchmarks each location against regional and national trends in its monthly PDF reports. It publishes an 18.7% median error in Great Britain against landlord-reported footfall.
Can I measure a single unit or frontage?
Yes. Draw a boundary around a single unit, a parade or a whole scheme on the Explore map and see its footfall, including visiting vs passing traffic. Huq covers any address in the UK, including competitors' assets and sites that haven't opened yet.
How often is the data refreshed?
Weekly. You can read footfall by week, month or year with period-on-period change, export CSV or Excel files, receive monthly PDF location reports, or take data feeds as Parquet and CSV files into Amazon S3 or Google Cloud Storage buckets.
What do I get in the free analysis?
Send us the centres, retail parks or units you care about and Huq will run a free analysis of your sites using its footfall, catchment and visit data. It shows what performance evidence Huq can add to the comparables and ownership data you already use.
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Huq is a location intelligence company. We turn anonymised mobile location data into footfall, catchment and visitor insight for any place, so retailers, property owners and local authorities can make decisions on evidence.
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