FAQs | Sample Report

The value of a Retail Real Estate property depends on a number of factors that can be difficult to determine with any degree of accuracy. Over the years, many of the most successful real estate developers and investors have simply been men and women with a "sixth sense" that helps them determine the real truth behind the hype they are being fed on a property.

Our Retailer Performance Report can help enhance your own "sixth sense" by giving you a framework in which to evaluate a particular property. Using our one-of-a-kind Retail Site Database, Trade Dimensions will produce for you a set of anchor store comparables unavailable anywhere else. Give us the name and address of any anchor store (e.g., supermarket, mass merchandiser, category killer, etc.) and we will pull the information we have in our database for that location, including:

Then, we'll also pull all the same information for the stores in a ten-mile radius that are in the same trade channel -- in other words, the location's competition. Plus, we'll pull average figures for your anchor store's chain as a whole. What you end up with is a complete picture of where this anchor store's performance ranks in terms of its competition, and where it ranks within its own chain -- important guidance that can help boost your "sixth sense."

Use the information to estimate sales/square foot and lease payments derived therefrom, as an independent third-party verification of information being provided to you by the tenant, or as guidance for a proposed refinance or remodel. Whatever your end use, you'll have added confidence that what you think you see is really what you're about to get.

Frequently Asked Questions

• What is the cost of this report?
• Where does this information come from?
• What do you mean by "Estimated Volume?"
• Who is currently using this data?

What is the cost of this report? A Retailer Performance Report for a single location is $995. Considering its "due diligence" value, this is one of the best information bargains available in real estate. Multi-report discounts are available -- call us at 203-222-5728 for more information.

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Where does this information come from? All the information in these reports is pulled directly from our Retail Site Database, a one-of-a-kind repository tracking over 375,000 actual retail locations in the US. This database is continually updated with the latest openings, closings, mergers and other changes to present the most accurate picture of the retail industry available at any price.

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What do you mean by "Estimated Volume?" Trade Dimensions tracks the volume of stores on an ongoing basis, by a variety of means including direct retailer input. Information from all the sources is weighted according to the credibility of the source, as well as compared to historical information, industry norms (average sales/sq. ft. for that format) before being inserted into the active store databases for client use. A quarter of a century of experience doing this, as well as the fact that we have deeper ties in the industry than anyone else, allow us to produce the most accurate estimates available at any price. However, while we do produce a weekly volume estimate, that estimate is an annualized number and does not necessarily correspond to a given week during the year, nor is it guaranteed to be 100% accurate. For more information on our methodology, request an informational packet here.

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Who is currently using this data? Longtime users of the Trade Dimensions Retail Site Database include many of the largest Consumer Package Goods companies in the world, as well as the leading in-store merchandising, promotional marketing, and research companies working with the retail industry. In the past two years, this data has also been adopted by investment banks, REITs and commercial lenders as the primary source of anchor store comparables.

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