Media and technology companies continued to dominate take-up of office space in London during the third quarter of 2012, says Cushman & Wakefield, accounting for almost 534,000 sq ft of the total 1.8m sq ft occupied during the quarter. This is ... Read more
Developers and investors have good reason to focus on the market for industrial property in West London and industrial units in the Thames Valley, says Jones Lang LaSalle in new research. This market is widely perceived to be leading a fragile ... Read more
The Docklands office of sbh Page & Read has let a 12,550 sq ft industrial property in Barking to Kailo Fashions on a five-year lease. The annual rent on Units 1 & 2 at 75 River Road is £67,000. The firm has also let the office space at Unit ... Read more
Total property returns reached 1.3% in Q3 2012, according to the Jones Lang LaSalle property index, compared with 0.4% for Q2. Although this was the biggest quarterly increase since Q4 2011, annual returns for 2012 so far are still significantly ... Read more
Commercial property development activity in the UK rose in September, for the first time in five months, reports Savills. The firm’s Total Commercial Development Activity Index reading for September came in at +9.9%, compared with -14.8% for ... Read more
Knight Frank says the market for office space in the Thames Valley has continued to outperform the wider South East office market, with take-up of M4 corridor office space at 649,788 sq ft during the third quarter, up 44% from the previous quarter ... Read more
For the third month in a row, UK commercial property total returns were 0.2% in September, according to the latest Monthly Index from CBRE. The firm says the overall total returns figure was again boosted by Central London office property, which ... Read more
Take-up of big-box logistics and industrial property in the UK is expected to be higher in the second half of 2012 after a decline during the first six months of the year. Jones Lang LaSalle’s latest research into this market indicates that occupier ... Read more
While the stock of retail warehouse properties openly available on the UK market is limited, DTZ says it is aware of £154m of stock “currently available quietly on the grey market” at the moment and at least £200m more of stock is expected to hit the ... Read more
Some occupiers and prospective purchasers of UK commercial property still view the green credentials of a property as a ‘nice to have’ rather than a ‘need to have’, which implies that investment in sustainable development has in general failed to ... Read more
