Occupier take-up of office space in Edinburgh reached 152,000 sq ft in the third quarter, which was 12% lower than the total a year earlier, says Jones Lang LaSalle. While Q3 take-up was consistent with the previous quarter, JLL says supply levels ... Read more
Cushman & Wakefield says the TMT sector is driving office leasing activity in London’s West End, accounting for more than a third of take-up in the third quarter of this year. Echoing recent research from CBRE, the firm says take-up in Central ... 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
Lambert Smith Hampton says its latest data on the market for available office property in the Thames Valley shows there is a shortage of Grade A stock across the region. Take-up of office property in the Thames Valley during the third quarter ... Read more
The market for retail warehouse property is robust, dynamic and recovering well, says Savills. The firm has analysed Trevor Wood’s national retail warehousing tenancy database and concludes that vacancy rates are falling in all but the most ... Read more
Leasing activity in the market for Central London office space continued to rise in September, says CBRE, with take-up reaching 1m sq ft and taking the total for the third quarter to 2.7m sq ft as a result – the highest quarterly total of the year so ... Read more
Activity in the investment market for commercial property in the West End of London was disappointing in September, says Savills, with only 14 new opportunities coming to market. Only two of these were priced at more than £20m, and another four over ... Read more
UK commercial property values grew slightly during September, says CBRE in its latest Monthly Index report. Total returns for All Property rose 0.6% after a 0.5% increase in August, while capital values edged up 0.1% after a slight dip the previous ... Read more
The decline in take-up in central London office property is starting to look like a trend, says Capita Symonds, as occupiers remain reluctant to commit during the current uncertain economic climate. The firm’s latest review of the market for ... Read more
Take-up of industrial and warehouse property in the Western Corridor region was 50% above the ten-year average in the first half of this year, at 2.5m sq ft, says Jones Lang LaSalle. This was also a 3% improvement from the second half of 2010. This ... Read more
