We think that consumer spending will struggle to grow at all for at least the next two to three years. Taking the period 2010-14 as a whole, this will result in average total returns for high street shops of around 6% per annum. These will be lower than the 8% returns we expect for retail warehouses and shopping centres. In turn, that is likely further to reduce the enthusiasm of investors to own and manage high street shops.
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