June 2015

The technology, media and telecoms sector, TMT for short, has been noticeable in its take-up of office space in London. 

Canary Wharf for many years was thought of as a desolate, high rise, tumbleweed strewn office submarket where rents are low and the morale of workers even lower. As rents soared in central London and vacancy rates were becoming unhealthily low, you could still find plenty of space for a...

Research by Colliers International shows that tech and creative businesses are struggling to find appropriate office space in London.   This is resulting in an increase in rents and, in some ways, pushing these sectors to look creatively at the space they need. 

R22 is a gas used in Air-conditioning and other appliance which was banned in 2014 from all new AC equipment, due to its detrimental effects on the Ozone layer. From 2015, it is illegal to maintain existing AC equipment which used R22 gas. What this means for tenants is when...

Research by DTZ in the form of the annual ‘Global Office Thermometer’ has shown that occupiers globally are feeling the effects of an overall lowering in office costs. There has been an average fall in costs per workstation worldwide, by 4.4% in 2014.   The fastest decline measured almost twice...