April 2017

Has the perception of serviced offices changed over the last five years? Landlords used to view serviced offices as a last resort option for filling unwanted space. But today, ideas of flexible workspaces are evolving, with developments being carried out for the sole purpose of setting up specialised serviced offices.

When looking at a new office, many tenants are only forecasting their move-in costs. They consider the costs of the lease, the fit out, new furniture and deposit, but dilapidation is often overlooked. However, the beginning of your lease is the exact time you should be negotiating your dilapidation liability.

Double dipping, double running or dual agency is the practice of acting for multiple parties, usually when undertaking investment work in the property industry, often for both buyer and seller or multiple buyers. In recent years, it has become a serious industry concern, and in 2014 resulted in a UK...

Everyone who walks around, lives in, and flies into London is impressed by our fascinating skyline. And why wouldn’t you be? A building the shape of a gherkin or a shard of glass is not something you see every day. That being said, how practical is it actually to work...

Great Portland Estate’s (GPE) 30 Broadwick Street boasts 75,000 sq ft of office space and 8,000 sq ft of retail space in central Soho. The office space covers the 1st to 6th floors, with terraces on the 4th to 6th. While 138 cycle spaces, showers and lockers, air-conditioning, raised floors,...

For many British and international real estate investors, London and other major cities in the UK are no longer a ‘financial haven’. Since the UK voted to leave the EU, many efforts have been made – especially from Theresa May – to activate article 50. For now, what awaits ‘the...

Data has always been an essential part of any business, and knowing how to collect and use it can create tremendous success and wealth. This has become ever more relevant with huge recent advances in technology, and companies are now collecting and holding more data than ever. However, there are...

Office take-up in central London was up 92% month-on-month in February 2017', totalling nearly 1 million sq ft. This huge increase was partly due to 17 transactions of over 10,000 sq ft each. These included Freshfields' pre-let of a vast 255,800 sq ft space at 100 Bishopsgate, and three other...

It would be easy to underestimate the impact of global megatrends on Africa. After all, the continent’s real estate markets have traditionally lingered behind developed and even many developing economies. However, expert real estate advisor and venture capitalist J.X. Paulin – who helped build Shanghai during its industrial revolution, and...