Offices offered the strongest returns on investment during the first quarter of this year, says Jones Lang LaSalle. The firm’s Q1 2012 UK Property Index shows that the office sector produced the strongest returns for the quarter at 0.9%, followed by ... Read more
Knight Frank predicted today that the market for office space within the M25 region will be driven over the next four years by companies upgrading to Grade A stock. At its annual M25 office market presentation at the Dorchester Hotel earlier today, ... Read more
The market for investment property in London was robust in the first quarter of 2012, says Cushman & Wakefield, with £3.6bn transacted – 42% more than in the final quarter of 2011. Lambert Smith Hampton, meanwhile, notes that the investment ... Read more
The last three months have shown signs of returning confidence among occupiers of offices in London, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s latest research. The amount of office space in London under offer jumped by 16.3% in Q1 2012 from the previous ... Read more
The Leeds Agents’ Forum has reported improved take-up of office space in Leeds during the first quarter of this year, with 155,847 sq ft taken up in the city centre compared with just 37,000 sq ft in Q1 2011. The out-of-town market was less ... Read more
GVA’s latest quarterly review of the nine largest UK regional office occupier markets has found that prospects have brightened considerably since the end of 2011. The firm says take-up was average during Q1 2012 at 1,611,000 sq ft, 2% above the ... Read more
Knight Frank expects the supply of office space in the City of London and offices in the West End to have fallen by the end of 2012 thanks to an increase in demand. The firm has released its Q1 2012 data for Central London offices, showing that ... Read more
The UK commercial property market continued to experience weaker trends during the past month, with values down and total returns fairly neutral, says CBRE. The firm’s Monthly Index for March shows All Property total returns of +0.1% and a fall in ... Read more
The market for commercial property in the UK is more polarised now than ever, says Prupim. In its latest Real Estate Perspective report, the property fund manager says investors increasingly prefer prime assets with limited potential for growth over ... Read more
The Telegraph has noted the attractiveness of EC1 to a wave of new occupiers in the creative, media, technology and fashion sectors, previously located in the West End of London. Office space in Clerkenwell and offices in Farringdon are cheaper than ... Read more
