Buy-to-let residential investors are increasingly looking at retail in small towns as an alternative investment.
You will struggle to find these towns in the top 400 or even top 500 shopping destinations. With populations ranging from 10,000 to 20,000 – and catchments not much larger – they are among the thousands of small towns that have dropped off the retail map.
But not for much longer.
Fancied by buy-to-let residential investors looking for a new source of income, and buoyed by signs of a reversal of the big-towns-only strategy of multiple retailers, smaller towns are beginning to appeal. It’s not just thanks to the quaint high streets, and nostalgia. This is the result of hard-nosed, commercial decisions.
From Whitby to Nailsea, Nailsea to Hailsham: join us on the EG Retail road trip.
