Are you paying too much for your service charges?

Service charges account for a significant proportion of total operating costs for most office occupiers – but tenants often overlook them when negotiating a lease. Lambert Smith Hampton points out that tenants tend to focus heavily on rent payable ... Read more

Office conversion is an obvious step for investors and developers – Lambert Smith Hampton

Analysis of 32 regional UK property markets by Lambert Smith Hampton has found that 27% of total regional available office property (11.7m sq ft) is obsolete and that of this total, 7.4m sq ft is suitable for conversion. “This obsolete space is ... Read more

Lack of stock is holding back industrial and logistics market – Lambert Smith Hampton

Take-up in the UK industrial and logistics market fell 25% year-on-year in 2012 to a total of 76.1m sq ft, says Lambert Smith Hampton – the lowest level in nearly a decade. According to Lambert Smith Hampton’s recently released Industrial and ... Read more

Birmingham offices buck the trend – Lambert Smith Hampton

Three major office deals in Birmingham totalling more than £107m accounted for more than 10% of total regional office transactions outside London last year, says Lambert Smith Hampton’s Adam Ramshaw. The total value of office transactions outside ... Read more

Newcastle city-centre office space remains limited – Lambert Smith Hampton

Take-up of office space in Newcastle city centre slowed considerably in the final quarter of last year, totalling just 13,332 sq ft compared with 23,363 sq ft a year earlier, says Lambert Smith Hampton. This took the total for the whole of 2012 to ... Read more

Low supply in Manchester attracts speculative office developments – LSH

There is no shortage of viable development sites in Manchester, but the key issue will be the level of occupational demand in the city in the next decade. So says Lambert Smith Hampton in its new research into the market for Manchester office ... Read more

London investment activity continues to dominate – Lambert Smith Hampton

UK property market investment activity increased during the second quarter, despite the worsening economic outlook, notes Lambert Smith Hampton in its latest UK Investment Transactions report. Total Q2 investment reached £7.83bn, which was 14% above ... Read more

Lease events drive search for high-quality Thames Valley offices – Lambert Smith Hampton

Lambert Smith Hampton says that the stable levels of offices take-up in the Thames Valley region during 2010 and 2011 may be surprising to some, given the negative macroeconomic environment. But they reflect the main driver of demand – occupier lease ... Read more

Prime industrial and distribution rents rise as shortages continue – Lambert Smith Hampton

The supply of Grade A distribution properties and industrial units for sale and to let in the UK continued to tighten last year, falling 28% to 13.1m sq ft, says Lambert Smith Hampton, while levels of secondary space fell 4%. In its National ... Read more