Tag: Local Data Company



West Midlands One of Biggest Sufferers of Empty Shops

Vast increase of short term outlet vacancy rates in UK
Posted on 18 May, 2016 by Chris Grigorovsky under Business News, Economy

New figures from the Local Data Company (LDC) have found that the West Midlands is still one of the worst affected regions in England for empty shops. The region currently has three towns in the top 10 list of areas with the highest percentage of... Read More

Vast Increase of Short-term Outlet Vacancy Rates in UK

Vast increase of short term outlet vacancy rates in UK
Posted on 15 April, 2016 by Chris Grigorovsky under Business News, Commercial Sales and Lets, Industry News

It has been reported that there was an 85% increase of vacant short-term outlets since Q4 2015. The Local Data Company (LDC) found that units which have been vacant for less than a year had increased to 2,109 in Q1 2016, a substantial increase from Q4... Read More

High Street Closures fall to Five Year Low

High street closures fall to five year low
Posted on 16 October, 2015 by Kirsten Kennedy under Business News

During the past year, the High Street recovery has taken huge steps, with the first half of 2015 seeing shop closures fall to their lowest level in five years according to a new report by PwC and the Local Data Company (LDC). However, rather than this being... Read More

Fall in Shop Vacancy Rates fails to disguise North-South Divide

Posted on 5 February, 2015 by Cliff Goodwin under Business News, Economy

Towns and cities in the north of England have twice as many empty shops as those in the south — with the North-East boasting the highest rate of vacancies in the country. The latest figures from the Local Data Company (LDC) — which monitors 3,000 town... Read More

Empty Shops Continue to Litter our High Streets

Posted on 10 September, 2013 by MOVEHUT under Business News

As you walk down your local high street, you may have noticed the amount of empty boarded up shops. Unfortunately this trend is set to continue as the number of unoccupied high street commercial properties remains worryingly high. According to the... Read More