June 2014

Recent property research, by CBRE Global, highlights the variation in cost of commercial property throughout the world.  Once again, London’s West End tops the chart as highest-priced office market in the world, with costs of £164 per square foot per year, and significantly more expensive than Hong Kong, which was...

The IPD UK Property Index is showing continued positivity in London in terms of property investment, particularly commercial property, demonstrating it as a popular choice of investment often over and above other options such as equities.  There are ever more start-ups on the scene while well-established and burgeoning businesses are...

The office leasing market in Central London is as tight as it possibly can be at the moment. West End vacancy rates are hovering around the 4% mark and all the way across Midtown to the City, occupiers are really struggling. With demand constantly increasing and supply only very gradually...

As a tenant looking office space in the Central London market, you have probably become very bored and frustrated with agents telling you how tight the market is with a sever lack of supply of good stock, especially between 1,000-3,000 sq. ft.

Morgan Pryce meets a lot of clients who are looking for between 800 and 1,500 sq. ft. At this sort of size companies sometimes tend to be unsure of whether they need an agent to find and secure them new office space or not. They have often moved a couple...

London property prices are featured in the news on a daily basis at present. The upward surge in prices isn’t limited to residential properties, and companies are finding themselves priced out of Central London and even the surrounding areas more than ever. Businesses are being forced to weigh up the...

As Q2 starts to draw to a close it means the summer is fast approaching. The next couple of months are going to be extremely busy as agents look to pack all of their business into 2 months as August is usually a write off. So where are we 6...

The latest London building to offer a ‘sky garden’ is 20 Fenchurch Street, or more commonly known as the ‘Walkie Talkie’. The sky garden at the top of this skyscraper is due to open by the end of this year, and will provide diners on the 35th storey not only...

The insurer Hiscox has announced the company that has been appointed to build its new offices in York.  The news of the £19-million offices has been welcomed by the city of York, which will be able to boast Hiscox’s largest offices outside the UK capital. 

This Thursday, the long awaited football world cup starts and as always there has been a huge amount of build-up leading up to this much anticipated event. England’s chances do not seem great this year, but maybe that is a good thing as we often perform our best whilst being...