REIT Archives - Ediston

The Ediston Property Investment Company offers value to those seeking income. The casualty list of retailers and restaurant chains grows ever longer, casting a deep shadow over the retail property market. Blame is apportioned between internet shopping, business rates, overexpansion, rising costs, faltering demand and, inevitably, Brexit. But Calum Bruce, a director of Ediston Real Estate, adds some other factors. Many of the property leases now causing pain were signed before the financial crisis, with upwards-only rent reviews at a time when ample credit encouraged both overexpansion and excess consumer spending, he points out. As a result “60% of the market is over-rented; retailers have simply overpaid”. Those who are struggling have failed to adapt to changing markets. Others worry