Knight Frank’s annual Central London breakfast, held earlier this week, suggests that ‘Silicon London’ may be gaining in popularity. While take-up of Central London office space fell 27% in 2011, to 10.7m sq ft, demand from the technology sector ... Read more
Knight Frank expects occupier activity in the market for office space in the M25 region to be largely driven by lease events this year, as opposed to business growth. For 2013-2015 the firm expects a spike in lease event-driven demand as historic ... Read more
Knight Frank has drawn attention to the continued strength of the Central London retail property market, as the sector is still outperfoming the rest of the UK in terms of sales, footfall and property market activity. “Retail in the capital continues ... Read more
Available retail space remains very scarce in London’s prime shopping areas, says Knight Frank in its Autumn/Winter 2011 research into the capital’s retail property markets. The firm’s survey of 16 key Central London retail streets suggests an ... Read more
Property investors, pick up the Keep Calm and Carry On mug when making your coffee today – so says Knight Frank, which claims in its latest Market Outlook that while the financial markets have swung from bull to bear in the past few months, there is ... Read more
Knight Frank says its wide-ranging research into the prospects for European property markets this summer show that while most commercial property markets are stabilising or in recovery, with rental growth seen in several key areas, there has been ... Read more
Knight Frank says the Thames Valley is leading the recovery in the market for available office space in South East England, and the ICT sector is driving this growth. At the firm’s M25 Office Market Research breakfast at the Dorchester in London this ... Read more
Four former Knight Frank agents are setting up a new agency to specialise in niche retail and restaurant leasing in London and the rest of the UK. Nigel Gillingham, Tracey Pollard and Woody Bruce, together with Rupert Bentley Smith, left Knight Frank ... Read more
Knight Frank, which today held its annual Central London Office Market Breakfast, cites a “severe imbalance” between supply and demand for high-quality office space, and growth in market sectors such as technology, media, telecoms and financial ... Read more
Demand from banks and other financial services companies for office space in London has rebounded, according to figures out from Knight Frank, which says the take-up of office space in central London by the financial sector jumped to 6.4m sq ft last ... Read more
