Data: Shop vacancies ‘at highest rate ever recorded’ as uncertainty lingers

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The rate of store vacancies rose to 14.5%, a slight increase from the 14.1% reported in Q1 and 2.1% higher than the same period in 2020.

Q2’s increase now marks more than three years of increasing store vacancy rates, a trend that began in Q1 2018, according to the BRC-LDC Vacancy Monitor. 

 

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