Metropolis Office Movers October 2017
November 17, 2017 Leave a comment
Metropolis ran 548 business leads on ‘office movers’ in the month of October 2017. If all reported moves were added together the total would exceed 8 million sq ft of office searches and transactions, researched by Metropolis’ unique market led intelligence research team. London was the largest region with 251 leads during month, but there were also strong showings from the South East (60), North West (40) and Scotland (36). IT services, professional and financial were the largest business sectors planning relocations or agreeing moves during the month.
The business leads covered the whole UK and provided details of the size of the office occupier, its likely move dates, a description of the reasons for the move, its business sector and full contact details including an address for written inquiries, at least one telephone number and in most cases an email address. Some of the largest planned moves and top picks amongst the 548 October leads, included those on Dentsu Aegis, Sumitomo Mitsui Bank, WeWork, Royal London Insurance and Dyson.
The October 2017 leads included 165 ‘identified requirements’. Which means that the company confirmed to researchers that it has current or future plans to search for alternative office space. Of these 165 searches, 100 were new office searches, not previously notified to clients.
The most recent research also included 150 ‘potential movers’ which were mainly longer-term leads on occupiers, considering a relocation, but the occupier has yet to make a final decision on whether to search.
Most of the remaining stories covered companies that have signed for new office space and have set a move date, including some large pre-lets and companies inviting tenders for fit-out contracts. The shortest planned move date is just over a month away, whilst the longest was late 2020.
Recent research by Metropolis concluded that a conservative estimate of ‘live’ business opportunities on the database in recent months exceeded £1bn of business.
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London Office Lettings in April 2018
May 24, 2018 Leave a comment
Central London office lettings in April 2018 reached almost 800,000 sq ft from 35 mid-large size transactions (5,000 sq ft+) during the month. The April 2018 figure is broadly in line with the current monthly average of 1m sq ft.
April was characterised by 13 office deals over 20,000 sq ft, which included Berwin Leighton Paisner’s 125,000 sq ft letting at Governor’s House, 5 Laurence Pountney Hill; St James’s Place’s 57,000 sq ft pre-letting at 30 Lombard Street, EC3 and KKR’s pre-let of 57,000 sq ft at 18 Hanover Square, W1.
Professional Services topped the table of lettings by sector, underpinned by BLP and KKR deals. This was followed by business services underpinned by a number of lettings by serviced office operators. Financial services, technology and media were also well represented. Office deals ‘under offer’ in central London increased to 3.6m sq ft, and pending deal volumes are healthy in nearly all sub-markets, with over 25 deals pending.
By area, the City accounted for 54pc of the office floorspace let in April 2018 at 433,000 sq ft. The West End saw 140,000 sq ft of take-up. Midtown contributed 80,000 sq ft of lettings, plus 45,000 sq ft of Docklands deals. Current London office demand is calculated to be around 3.3m sq ft in the City and 2.7m sq ft in the West End.
The volume of grade A (newly built or refurbished office space) let during the month reached 375,000 sq ft (47% of the monthly total), as transactions for new space resumed their recent strong showing. Availability is dominated by secondhand space in all London markets.
Metropolis research is currently monitoring 635 ‘live’ London requirements, with deals for space of up to 1.8m sq ft due to sign in the next few months.
Cityoffices is working on its current ‘Skyline Survey’ in London. Further details of office scheme planning applications and consents, with scheme by scheme detail are listed on the Cityoffices.net website. Details on the report and the Cityoffices database from Andy King at andy@metroinfo.co.uk
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