Considering a single ground-floor shop, plan to rent it out rather than run a business myself. First time doing this kind of buy-to-let on a commercial unit. What actually decides whether a shop attracts a decent tenant later — beyond the obvious 'good location'?
Frontage width and depth of the shop matter more than raw square footage — a wide shallow shop rents easier to retail than a narrow deep one, most tenants want visible frontage. Also check the association or building rules on signage and shutter hours, some buildings restrict what a tenant can even put up outside, which puts off certain kinds of retail tenants before they even negotiate.
Parking for customers, even two or three spots, made a real difference for my shop's tenant search.
Didn't think about signage restrictions at all, will ask the association rules upfront.
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