UK Retail Site Intelligence

Know if a unit will work before you sign.

A full site assessment in ninety seconds. Competitor analysis, catchment demographics, crime, footfall, revenue forecast and rent estimate - for any UK postcode. Assembled from public data, priced honestly.

Run your first assessment - £2.99 See a sample report
Built on VOA rateable values, ONS demographics, Land Registry sales, police.uk crime data and Google Places live trading signals.
The honest pitch

How we do it, honestly.

The data is out there. Rateable values from the VOA. Demographics from ONS. Crime from police.uk. Sales from the Land Registry. Flood zones from gov.uk. All free, all public, all a few hours' work to read for one address.

RetailSense reads it in ninety seconds and writes you a report. That's the whole trick. You're not getting less than the expensive full-suite high sell from the big guys — you're getting the ninety seconds of clever between the data and the decision.

And the footfall? Real footfall counters cost thousands a year. So we do something different — read Google's live “popular times” for every business around your address and stitch it together into a picture of when your street is busy. Not the same as a proper counter. A lot closer than a guess. And it costs you £2.99.

Free supporting tools

Beyond the assessment.

Two free tools to help you find units and the people you need to open one.

Find commercial units

Every commercial property near a postcode by floor size - area, rateable value and estimated rent, from official records.

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A free directory of commercial agents, surveyors, shopfitters, solicitors and the landlords behind the UK's shopping centres and retail parks.

Data provenance

Every number, every source.

Nothing proprietary. Nothing hidden. Every figure in your report traces back to one of these.

VOA
Business rates and rateable values for every commercial property in England and Wales
ONS
Census demographics, income, age profile, deprivation indices at LSOA level
police.uk
Street-level crime by category, updated monthly
Land Registry
Commercial and residential sale prices, ownership records
gov.uk
Flood zones, radon designations, environmental risk
postcodes.io
UK postcode geography, LSOA and constituency lookup
Google Places
Nearby businesses, ratings, live “popular times” for footfall inference
Sample report

L1 8JQ - Coffee shop, mid-market

A worked example from a real Liverpool postcode. Every number below is what your report would show.

7.0
Overall / 10
£14.2k
Weekly revenue (mid)
£62k
Annual rent est.
Busy
Footfall band

What the report tells you

  • Competitor picture: 12 coffee outlets within 300m. Costa at 47m is the strongest live-trading signal. Threat level moderate.
  • Catchment demographics: IMD decile 2 (higher deprivation). Weekday daytime lift from office workers. Suggests value-mid pricing.
  • Crime profile: 3-month all-crime count 847. Shoplifting concentrated near retail core. Insurance and staffing implications flagged.
  • Footfall inference: Stitched from 8 neighbouring businesses. Peak Saturday 14:00, quietest Monday morning. Consistent trading pattern.
  • Full profitability: Revenue £738k Year 2, COGS 30%, staff 25%, rent £62k, EBITDA £147k.