Square footage of retail real estate in the U.S. 2023, by type
Most of the retail real estate stock in the United States in 2023 was general retail space. That includes single-tenant freestanding commercial buildings with parking, such as drugstores, grocery stores, and street front urban retail stores. About 6.5 billion of the total 12 billion square feet of retail space fell in this category. This was also the retail real estate type with the lowest vacancy rate.