Office Sector

The City of London Corporation Planning Applications Sub-Committee has approved plans from Landsec to transform Hill House, EC4 into a sustainable workspace and new rooftop restaurant. Situated adjacent to Landsec’s New Street Square cluster, Hill House has been designed to respond ...

March 2024 recorded the strongest month for office occupancy since May 2021, with a daily average office occupancy rate of 34.1 per cent, according to the latest report from Remit Consulting. The previous highest monthly average of 33.8 per cent ...

The flexible workspace operator is launching its second office flex space in Leeds City Centre having entered into a new 10-year management agreement to create high quality flexible workspace and tenant amenity offering at Broad Gate in Leeds. Set to ...

Energy efficient assets report stronger investment performance across all sectors in 2023, according to CBRE’s latest Sustainability Index report. The research found that inefficient commercial property assets recorded a fall of -6 per cent in capital value growth in 2023, ...

A new report out by commercial real estate services and investment firm, CBRE, has revealed that the largest 100 office leases signed in the United States in 2023 included more renewals of leases for already occupied space than new deals. ...

Accountancy and business advisory firm BDO has identified in its latest benchmarking report that offices with an ‘outstanding’ or ‘excellent’ Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Methodology (BREEAM) certification had total service charge costs that were 26 per cent higher than ...

The British Council for offices new research agenda focuses on four priority areas, including the development of the BCO’s ‘2030 vision for the office’. The four priority focus areas identified in the Research Programme Working Document, sets the agenda for ...

According to the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC) significant opportunities are being missed by office investors, owners, and occupiers who do not have clear retrofit strategies in place. Firstly, through missing the “easy wins” – low cost, low disruption measures ...

The BCO’s annual Awards celebrate the best in class of UK workplace design. FMJ focuses on three of this year’s award-winning office spaces and learns what BCO CEO Richard Kauntze and Chair of judges Mike Burton look for in a ...

A growing number of organisations plan to lease more space in the coming months, according to a recent survey from MRI Software and CoreNet Global. This finding, based on responses from more than 1,300 real estate occupiers globally, contrasts significantly ...