Market Lens: UK Landlord Sentiment 2026

Regulation is the new risk. The market is adjusting.

Discover how UK commercial landlords are managing the weight of regulation, shifting tenant expectations, and a rate environment that has stopped falling and what the data says about where the market goes from here.

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Why regulatory compliance has overtaken interest rates as the defining challenge.
How UK sentiment moved less than any other market and what that tells you about where the UK was already positioned.
Which asset classes are delivering and which are quietly losing ground.
What landlords with loans maturing in 2026–2027 are actually planning to do.

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Key Findings Preview

Regulation: Regulatory compliance jumped to the top challenge at 61%, up 24 points year-on-year - the highest reading of any region surveyed.
Tenants: Flexible lease demand at 65% is the dominant UK tenant signal, well ahead of AU (31%) and NZ (39%).
Asset classes: Industrial leads at net +33. Retail high street sits at -28 - the deepest underperformance of any asset class in any market surveyed.

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What you will find inside:

Proprietary sentiment, asset performance, ESG readiness, and tenant demand data from UK commercial landlords, benchmarked year-on-year against 2025.
MEES 2028, the April business rates revaluation, and ESG compliance are now embedded in investment decisions, not just operations - understand what that means for your portfolio.
Signals on rental growth, flexible lease strategy, regional opportunity, and how to navigate the highest divest intent of any market in this year's survey.

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