Retail and Leisure Agency
Retail and leisure advice from a local perspective
Our Retail Agency team has helped to shape the face and performance of the Welsh retail and leisure property market to the benefit of landlords, retailers and developers. We are proud to be a leading Welsh advisor on high street, shopping centre and out of town retail and leisure, proactively working on behalf of our clients to secure and develop the right locations, at the right price, at the right time.
Examples of our work
- We are currently active on key high streets across south Wales and have an intimate knowledge of every retail centre from Aberystwyth in the west to Caldicot in the east and all towns / cities in between
- Currently we are letting agents for key Welsh shopping centres including Capitol Shopping Centre in Cardiff, Merlins Walk Shopping Centre in Carmarthen, The Rhiw Shopping Centre in Bridgend and St Tydfil Shopping Centre in Merthyr Tydfil (and formerly Friars Walk Shopping Centre, Newport 24 months prior to its launch)
- We have been appointed under a national framework to dispose of surplus Co-op Banks, Virgin Money and Nat West Banks leases and freeholds throughout Wales
- We are the letting agents dealing with prime city centre restaurant accommodation along Mill Lane, Cardiff city centre
- Active in leasing activity on out of town retail parks in various locations across south Wales including Newport Rd, Cardiff and the Enterprise Park, Swansea.
Our retail and leisure clients include Greggs PLC (retained to deal with all acquisitions, disposals and lease advisory work throughout Wales), Principality Building Society, Specsavers, Burger King, Esquires Coffee, AS Watson, Spar, Barnardo's, British Heart Foundation and a number of regional and local occupiers.
Whether you’re selling, letting or acquiring property, Cooke & Arkwright’s unrivalled coverage in Wales enables us to give the best advice to landlords and occupiers within the retail and leisure sector.
Our services include:
- Lettings: we are retained as letting agents for shops, shopping centres and retail parks
- Sales: we are retained to sell retail property throughout Wales
- Acquisitions: we are retained by retailers and leisure operators to acquire units on their behalf on high streets, in shopping centres and on retail parks throughout the UK
- Assigning: we are retained by retailers to assign existing leases.
Award winning property services
Please give one of our experts a call to discuss how we can start helping you today.