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.

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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.

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

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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 real assessment of a Liverpool city-centre postcode — shown exactly as it appears in your report.

L1 8JQ
Coffee Shop / Café · E(b) Restaurant/Café
City Centre North · Liverpool · North West
OVERALL SCORE
5.8
out of 10
Average
Weekly revenue
£6k–£11k
Weekly rent
£3k
Competitors
4
IMD deprivation
6/10
Competition🟠 Below average
4 competitors nearby — high competition for this location.
Demographics🟡 Average
Deprivation decile 6 of 10 (average area).
Footfall🟡 Average
Busyness 56/100 from 13 businesses within 100m.
Accessibility🟢 Good
6 transport links within 800m.
Crime🔴 Poor
High crime area — factor in security and insurance costs.
Environmental risk🟢 Good
Low environmental risk for this location.

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