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Retail Market Place January 2026


NewRiver's Retail Revealed: Retail is no longer a recovery story - its a performance story.

Retail Real Estate is not just back, its structurally attractive and forecast to outperform.

In this 10-minute video, NewRiver CEO Allan Lockhart gives an honest tour of the UK retail market - from a resilient consumer and what's happening in the tills, to why physical retail is reshaping not shrinking, and how this is driving occupational demand across shopping centres and retail parks.

The result?

  • The strongest occupational conditions in over a decade.
  • The busiest shopping centre market since 2016.
  • Rising capital values and some of the most compelling income returns in UK real estate.

NewRiver's Retail Revealed: The Investment Case for Retail Real Estate



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