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London Office Market – Special Report

West End pre-let

Hammersmith consent

Refurbishment in W1

Contractor for major Noho scheme

Letting for Midtown scheme

Pre-let for GPE building

Mayfair refurbishment

Hammersmith scheme developer

New start planned for EC2

Exchange Place sub let

Land Securities to begin huge SE1 offices

Quadrant East.

Bovis to begin on new Royex House

HQ pre-let for Guardian Media Group

GPE plans SE1 scheme

News International revises plans

Crusader House redevelopment

City & West End in Wardour Street

Film House redevelopment plan

No move for AKQA

BBC 'longlist' development consortia

Minerva buys Ludgate House in SE1

Docklands scheme progress

Canary Wharf Group has bought ownership of the Wood Wharf Limited Partnership from British Waterways and Ballymore Properties. Canary Wharf Group will now have control of design over the 16.8 acre Wood Wharf mixed use development scheme site, which is immediately adjacent to the Canary Wharf. Wood Wharf will comprise 1.25 million square feet of residential development, 200,000 sq ft of retail, 3.1m sq ft of offices and a 200,000 sq ft hotel with a single outline planning consent in May 2009. Detailed consent was subsequently granted for the three office buildings closest to the Canary Wharf estate totalling 1.5m sq ft net in July 2009. - (20-01-2012)

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Christmas 2010: 22% More Christmas Cheer - Official!

London office deals in 2010 are now 22% up - in terms of space taken - on last Christmas. CityOffices research has identified just over 11.1m sq ft of office deals in central London this year. This is the first rise in deals-done since take-up peaked in 2007. Recent pre-lets to Bloomberg, BNP Paribas and JP Morgan, have helped drive a strong final quarter of this year.

The take-up of Grade A recently constructed or refurbished space also shows a slight increase by 10%. Deals signed on prime space in central London account for 4.2m sq ft in 2010, compared to 3.8m sq ft in 2009.

The City of London has dominated deals this year accounting for 5.1m sq ft, or 46%, of total take-up. The West End saw just 1.8m, or 16%, of deals signed, with the remainder of lettings mainly focused on Docklands and ‘fringe’ locations.

Financial services came back strongly in 2010 and accounted for over 44% of space let. The next best performing sectors are professional services, media, and insurance, which together took 25% of space let.



The late surge in deals this year, and the large amount of space expected to be signed up in early 2011, means that the London fit-out market will be strong in the first half of next year. After that a reduction in available prime office space, and increasing rents, may lead to occupiers pre-letting, or undertaking short-term refurbishment and re-stacking, to await the next ‘wave’ of office buildings due to arrive in 2013.

So it looks like a Merry Christmas for all

Our best wishes for a prosperous 2011

The CityOffices team. - (24-12-2010)

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October take-up

October central London office lettings totalled 657,000 sq ft - a fall on recent months. Grade A lettings made up about half the total with 312,000 sq ft. The media sector made a strong showing in October, bouyed by Mindshare's 77,000 sq ft deal at Central St Giles. - (26-11-2010)

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Glasnost - Online Project, Contact & Image Management

Stanhope win Noho

Stanhope is now the developer of the NoHo Square scheme in Mortimer Street, London, W1. The 1.3ha (3 acre) NoHo site was owned by Kaupthing, the Icelandic bank, but a £50m deal will see Stanhope in control of a joint venture. It is thought that Kaupthing will write off £200m of debt on the project. The planned 82,776 sq m (891,000 sq ft) of luxury apartments and 32,980 sq m (355,000 sq ft) of offices is expected to be redesigned with a media industry focus. - (21-03-2009)

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Shell-Mex House for sale

Shell-Mex House in the Strand, London WC2 is rumoured to be on the market at around £300m. The landmark office building was built by Royal Dutch Shell as its head office in 1931 and was acquired by Witkoff, the US property company, for about £180m in 1999. The 53,400 sq m (575,000 sq ft) building completed a major refurbishment last year and is now occupied by Omnicom, the advertising group, Pearson, the media company, and Vizzavi, the internet joint venture between Vodafone and Vivendi. It is said that Insignia Richard Ellis is to market the investment opportunity. - (11-03-2001)

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Plantation Place may be a speculative start

British Land has said that it is in talks with several potential tenants for its Plantation Place scheme in Fenchurch Street, London EC3 and 201 Bishopsgate, London EC2. British Land has also indicated that if a pre-let is not immediately forthcoming the company will start construction work on the Plantation Place buildings on a speculative basis. The Plantation Place site has been cleared, some infrastructure works have carried out, and the archaeological dig is now nearing completion. - (01-12-2000)

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Canary Wharf assembles land bank

Canary Wharf Group has announced that it exchanged contracts with Wetherby Limited to purchase the 2.8ha (6.7 acre) area of land, known as 'Shed 35', immediately to the north of the Canary Wharf complex in London E14, for about £53m. Completion of the agreement is due in November 2000. Shed 35 has an existing planning permission for a 1.9 million sq ft mixed use commercial development of offices and hotel. This site combined with the Riverside site, recently taken into full ownership and control of Canary Wharf, provides the potential for 3 million sq ft of office space to cope with future demand. - (09-11-2000)

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McGraw Hill to take DS4 at Canary Wharf

McGraw-Hill, the US-based information services provider, has signed a letter of agreement with Canary Wharf Group to take the majority of the 46,450 sq m (500,000 sq ft) DS4 building at Canary Wharf to accommodate the company's rapidly growing financial services and business-information operations. The new building for The McGraw-Hill Companies is designed by Skidmore Owings & Merrill and construction wok will start once formal contracts are signed and will be ready for occupancy in 2003. The McGraw-Hill Companies plan to occupy the majority of the new building with options for expansion over the balance of the space. The new building will have direct access to the new retail building immediately to the north, to the underground retail mall, and to the Jubilee line link - (06-10-2000)

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