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This is a sector spotlight report published by Savills in June 2025 covering the office market in Edinburgh, UK. The report provides a market overview for May 2025.
In Q1 2025, UK purpose-built student accommodation (PBSA) investment completed 18 deals worth nearly £750 million, with 56% of transactions involving operational assets and investors increasingly shifting toward mid-market and value-add properties rather than prime assets due to concerns around occupancy, affordability, and international student mobility. The document identifies key sector challenges including supply slowdown caused by higher build costs and regulatory hurdles such as the Building Safety Act and Gateway 2 process, alongside findings that the total PBSA pipeline stands at nearly 200,000 beds with 23% under construction, while operational performance data shows the market returning to normal leasing patterns with expected rental growth of 4–5% nationally for 2025/26.
This is a quarterly data report published by Savills on March 31, 2025, presenting occupational office market figures for Edinburgh in the first quarter of 2025.
Vacancy on Copenhagen's high street has compressed to 6.0% from 11.3% over the past year, with 17 vacant units of 284 total, reflecting demand strengthening and property refurbishments including Bestseller's overhaul and Louis Vuitton's relocation. The fashion segment has increased its share of retail stores from 42% to 46% (131 of 284 shops), driven by flagship openings and emerging brands, while average asking rents for high street retail space stand at DKK 9,200 per square meter (gross), with rents ranging between DKK 4,000 and DKK 16,000 per square meter.
Prime office rents across the UK's 15 key regional office markets rose by an average of 8.2% in 2025, with the Big Six markets (Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, and Manchester) experiencing stronger growth of 10.2%, driven by limited supply of high-quality space and strong occupier demand. Investment activity remained subdued at £938 million through Q3 2025, level with the prior year, though sentiment improved and sentiment indicators point to recovery expected in 2026 supported by high-profile asset disposals and improved financing conditions.
This is a market report published by Colliers on December 31, 2025, providing a snapshot of the property market in Glasgow, Scotland as of November 2025. The report covers capital markets activity in the Glasgow geography.
This is a market report published by CBRE in September 2025 covering the office sector in Manchester, United Kingdom.
Cushman & Wakefield's Q3 2025 MarketBeat report on UK retail and leisure markets covers recovery across virtually all sub-sectors in 2025, with improving retailer sentiment driven by three consecutive months of year-on-year retail sales growth, though optimism is tempered by anticipated fiscal tightening in the November budget and economic uncertainty. Key findings indicate supply remained stable at approximately 8% vacancy, total retail investment volumes stayed in line with long-term Q1-Q3 averages at +1%, prime retail assets saw increased activity including URW's 25% acquisition of St James Quarter and 50% stake in the Bullring, and international new entrants and Asian brand expansion are driving global retail demand in the UK market.
This is a data and figures report published by Savills on September 30, 2025, presenting occupational office market data for Manchester in the third quarter of 2025.
UK commercial real estate investment volumes totalled £10.4 billion in Q3 2025, the lowest quarterly figure since Q4 2023, with year-to-date totals of £40 billion representing 3.9% growth over the same period in 2024. The MSCI UK Quarterly Property Index delivered a 1.4% total return for Q3 2025, marking the sixth consecutive positive quarter, with retail posting the strongest performance at 2% quarterly returns and 9.2% annualized returns, while institutional investor activity began showing signs of recovery across multiple sectors.
The Manchester Hotel Market Spotlight for the 12 months ending August 2025 reports that branded full-service hotels experienced declining profits with gross operating profit per available room down 13.4%, driven by a 4.0% revenue drop despite a 0.9% increase in average daily rate, while occupancy fell 6.9% to 71.0% amid 1.6% supply growth including 888 new rooms. Gross operating profit margin contracted by 2.7 percentage points to 24.4%, reflecting insufficient cost reductions to offset lower revenues and the impact of increased supply particularly in the Midscale and Upper Upscale segments.
Manchester's office market in H1 2025 recorded 581,542 sq ft of take-up across 102 transactions, representing 14% growth over H1 2024 and the largest first half since 2019, with Grade A and Prime space accounting for 57% of activity. Overall availability decreased to 2.9 million sq ft with a vacancy rate of 11.1%, while the TMT sector led activity with 42% of total leasing, and Prime headline rents reached £45 per sq ft with developers commencing speculative construction including Landsec's 243,000 sq ft Republic scheme in Mayfield.
Glasgow's office market experienced record take-up of 439,367 square feet in 2024 across 126 transactions, driven primarily by the legal sector which accounted for 41% of professional sector activity, while the market faces acute supply constraints with only 0.8 years of prime office stock available and prime rents exceeding £40 per square foot. The document identifies emerging growth sectors including health tech, fintech, and creative industries alongside traditional strengths in engineering and professional services, with approximately 874 fast-growth private companies and £267 million in venture capital raised over recent years positioned to drive future office demand.
This is a real estate market outlook report published by CBRE on December 31, 2024, covering investment opportunities and sector performance in Oslo, Norway for 2025, with coverage spanning office, multifamily, retail, and industrial sectors along with capital markets analysis.
This is a market report published by Savills in December 2025 covering the office sector in Birmingham, UK.
Leeds office market take-up reached 625,646 sq ft across 105 transactions in 2025, with Grade A and Prime space accounting for 375,592 sq ft (60% of total take-up), while prime rent increased 18% to £46 per sq ft and overall availability fell to 886,513 sq ft with a 7.2% vacancy rate by Q4 2025. Public services, education, and health was the most active sector at 32% of take-up, led by National Rail's 108,576 sq ft acquisition at 2 Princes Square, and Savills forecasts headline rents will reach £58 per sq ft by 2030 based on revised projections.
Leeds office market take-up totalled 625,646 sq ft across 105 transactions in 2025, matching the five-year annual average and representing activity 9% above the five-year average, with Grade A and Prime space accounting for 60% of total take-up at 375,592 sq ft. Headline rents increased 18% year-on-year to £46 per sq ft in Q3 2025, with forecasts predicting 26% growth over the next five years to exceed £58 per sq ft by 2029, while total availability fell to 886,513 sq ft with a 7.2% vacancy rate, and public services, education and health remained the most active sector at 32% of take-up.
This is a data and figures report published by Savills on 30 September 2025 presenting occupational office market information for Leeds in the third quarter of 2025. The report covers the office sector in the Leeds area within the UK.
This is a data-figures report published by Savills on June 30, 2025, presenting occupational office market data for Leeds covering the first half of 2025.
This is a market report published by Colliers on September 30, 2025, providing an investment market overview for Prague and the Czech Republic in the third quarter of 2025. The report covers capital markets activity and investment trends across the multifamily, office, and retail sectors in the Prague market.
Lisbon's office market is undergoing a transformation driven by occupier demand for high-specification, sustainable buildings, yet only 15-20% of the city's total office stock currently meets Grade A standards, creating a significant supply-demand mismatch. European Grade A office development completions are expected to rise to 4.3 million square meters in 2025 but fall sharply to 3.1 million square meters in 2026, the lowest level since 2017, while speculative development has halved to just 1.6% of stock, with most new schemes pre-let prior to completion, intensifying competition for prime space and putting upward pressure on rents.
Cushman & Wakefield's Italy Retail Q2 2025 MarketBeat report covers the Italian retail property market, documenting prime rents (Milan €20,000/sqm/yr, Rome €16,000/sqm/yr, shopping centers €1,200/sqm/yr) and yields alongside macroeconomic conditions including 0.5% GDP growth and 5.90% unemployment. Investment activity increased 16% quarter-over-quarter to €670 million in Q2, bringing H1 2025 to €1.240 billion and doubling H1 2024 volumes, while occupier demand strengthened with new entries from sportswear and lifestyle brands (Lululemon, Alo Yoga, Autry) driven partly by anticipation of the 2026 Milano-Cortina Winter Olympics.
This is a market report published by CBRE in March 2026 covering the office sector in Frankfurt, Germany.
The UK Logistics Market Dashboard for March 2026 from Knight Frank tracks investment, occupier activity, rental growth, and development in the UK industrial and logistics sector, presenting market yields, capital composition data, and performance metrics across multiple indices. Key findings include full-year 2025 investment transactions totaling £10.5 billion (27% higher than 2024), annual UK industrial capital growth slowing to 2.74% in February 2026, rental growth of 4.65% year-on-year through February 2026, and an increasing yield spread over five-year SONIA swaps rising to 272 basis points amid geopolitical uncertainties and rising interest rate expectations.
JLL's Q1 2026 Bristol Office Market Dynamics report analyzes office real estate conditions in Bristol, documenting take-up of 160,400 sq.ft., prime rent of £52.00 per sq.ft., overall vacancy at 5.0%, and Grade A vacancy declining to 2.8% from 3.0% in the prior quarter. The report attributes market conditions to steady occupier demand alongside constrained supply and a limited development pipeline, with further upward pressure on prime rents expected due to scarcity of high-quality space.
The Knight Frank UK Retail Monitor for Q3 2025 provides quarterly updates on key retail data across all subsectors and current market sentiment, covering consumer confidence, retail sales, footfall, occupier markets, and investment activity. The document reports that retail sales values grew by 3.2% year-over-year in Q3 with volumes up 1.5%, consumer confidence improved marginally in October, retail vacancy rates dipped below 15% for the first time since 2020, and total retail investment volumes declined to £1.37bn in Q3 2025 compared to £1.63bn in Q2 2025.
Central London office take-up totalled 1.95 million sq ft in Q3 2025, down 21% on the 10-year average with Grade A accounting for 70% of quarterly leasing, while availability decreased to 27.79 million sq ft, remaining 46% above the 10-year average. The market faces a supply shortage in core locations as Grade A availability in core submarkets is projected to fall below 1.0 year's supply from 2026 onwards, with 7.18 million sq ft under construction expected to deliver by 2030, creating a significant imbalance between supply and demand over the medium term.
London's hotel market achieved 4.0% RevPAR growth in Q3 2025 versus the prior year, recovering from a 2.6% decline in the first half, with upper-mid and upscale hotels reaching over 90% occupancy and upper-upscale hotels recording the strongest ADR growth of 2.8%. Payroll costs continued to pressure profitability, rising 5.7% per available room in the six months since April, while serviced apartments was the only segment to record year-to-date GOPPAR growth ahead of 2024, achieved through cost reduction despite a 2% RevPAR decline.
During Q1–Q3 2025, Bristol office take-up totalled 439,420 square feet across 78 transactions, with Grade A and Prime space comprising 61% of activity and rents reaching £50 per square foot, up 2% from the prior quarter. Supply at end-Q3 stood at 1.3 million square feet with a 10.5% vacancy rate, while the Insurance & Financial Services sector led demand with 130,352 square feet leased, followed by Property Company, Development & Construction at 71,114 square feet.
Knight Frank's Q3 2025 London Office Market Report assesses conditions in the London office market, finding that despite persistent inflation at 3.8% and elevated interest rates, London business activity outpaced other UK regions for a third consecutive quarter, with take-up reaching 2.7 million square feet (down 23.3% quarterly but 19.8% ahead year-over-year). The report identifies softer leasing activity, a constrained development pipeline, falling investment volumes of £1.6 billion (offset by rising assets under offer at £3.0 billion), and overall market resilience marked by improved sentiment, though vacancy rates increased marginally to 9.0% and structural undersupply of best-in-class space is projected to persist through 2029.
This is a Q1 2026 data-focused report published by Savills presenting occupational office market figures for Birmingham, UK.
The JLL Q1 2026 report analyzes Central London's office real estate market, finding that leasing activity remained strong due to increased pre-letting and engagement from technology, media, and telecommunications occupiers. Overall supply tightened and vacancy declined, particularly in new-build stock, while investment activity moderated with lower volumes compared to previous benchmarks.
This is a market report published by Savills in Q4 2025 covering the logistics sector in London and the South East of England.
This is a market report published by Knight Frank at the end of 2025 covering the Central London retail sector. The dashboard presents data and market conditions for the fourth quarter of 2025.
Knight Frank's 2025 Scotland Report provides a cross-sector review of the Scottish commercial real estate market covering offices, manufacturing, and retail, finding that while leasing activity shows resilience particularly in major centers with concentrated demand for high-quality assets, legacy stock faces obsolescence risk and secondary properties struggle to attract investment unless significantly repriced. The report details that Edinburgh office take-up grew 62% in 2024 underpinned by a major HBOS lease of 282,000 square feet, Glasgow take-up rose 37%, and prime rents have increased notably with Edinburgh experiencing 30% growth since March 2020, though new development pipelines remain constrained with only 38,361 square feet of new space available in Edinburgh.
Knight Frank's Q4 2025 London Offices Spotlight provides a quarterly market snapshot showing that 2025 take-up reached 12.1 million square feet (8.2% above the long-term average), London vacancy fell to 8.6% and could drop to 7.6% if space under offer completes, and investment volumes achieved £3.3 billion in the best quarter since Q1 2022 with £3.1 billion further under offer. The report presents detailed metrics across London's office submarkets, including 23.0 million square feet of availability, 11.4 million square feet in active requirements, and 10.9 million square feet under speculative construction, alongside regional breakdowns for City & Southbank, Docklands & Stratford, and West End markets.
The Knight Frank Q4 2025 report analyzes investment, development, and occupational markets for South East and Greater London offices, documenting leasing volumes of 3.4 million square feet in 2025 (up 8% from 2024), with 356 deals completed at the highest annual total on record, and Grade A space accounting for 79% of take-up. Investment volumes reached £1.3 billion in 2025 (25% lower than 2024), with 112 deals completed and prime yields remaining at 7.00%, while the development pipeline remained limited at 1.9 million square feet under construction, with Cambridge and West London accounting for 61% of speculative space.
Central London office take-up totalled 2.88 million sq ft in Q4 2025, up 17% on the 10-year average with 72% classified as Grade A, while core Grade A supply is depleting at an alarming rate with the City Core and West End submarkets holding only 1.1 years and 0.7 years of Grade A supply respectively, well below the 10-year average of 1.7 years. Investment activity recovered significantly with £3.31 billion deployed in Q4 (up 95% quarter-on-quarter) and £9.76 billion of assets traded during 2025, a 61% increase on 2024, though construction costs and limited development pipeline are expected to require continued rental growth to support returns in the near term.
Frankfurt's commercial real estate investment market recorded €770 million in transaction volume during 2025, a 52.6% decline from 2024, with no deals exceeding €100 million and a weakened office segment representing only 40% of investments compared to its long-term average of two-thirds. The document notes that a substantial pipeline of large-volume properties including Opernturm, Westend Duo, Trianon, and the Wave are in advanced negotiation stages, and forecasts a significant recovery in 2026 driven by strong office leasing fundamentals with 611,000 square meters of space concluded.
Total retail investment volumes in 2025 are forecast to reach £5.83 billion, down 17% on 2024 and 8% below the 10-year average, with underperformance driven primarily by a shortage of large-scale shopping centre availability in the first half and significant retail warehousing slowdown in the second half. All retail sub-sectors showed strong occupational performance in 2025 with declining vacancy rates (down to 13.5% nationally, the lowest since COVID), rental growth projected at 3.2% (the strongest since 2006), and shopping centres and foodstores emerging as top-performing asset classes alongside retail warehousing, with the sector forecast to deliver total returns of 9.5% in 2026.
This is a fourth-quarter 2025 market report published by Savills covering the build-to-rent sector in the United Kingdom, with a focus on London. The report provides an update on multifamily rental market conditions and developments in the UK during that period.
Central London office take-up totalled 2.63 million sq ft in Q4 2025 with 188 transactions completed, down 19% year-on-year and 13% below the ten-year average, though the year saw 10 transactions over 100,000 sq ft—the highest in three years—driven by strong demand from Insurance & Financial Services (31% of space), Tech & Media resurgence, and preference for high-quality space with 77% of 2025 lettings in recently developed or refurbished buildings. Central London investment turnover reached £9.88 billion across 220 transactions in 2025, up 48% on 2024, with vacancy rates at 7.4% (down 40bps quarterly and 10bps year-on-year), City Prime rents reaching a record £105.26 per sq ft (up 6.8%), West End Prime rents at £166.61 per sq ft (up 6
This is a sector spotlight report published by Savills at the end of 2025 covering the UK hotel market, with a focus on London. The report provides an overview of the hospitality sector in the United Kingdom and European context.
Knight Frank's Q3 2025 quarterly review reports that investors committed over £3 billion to the UK Build to Rent market in the first nine months of 2025, with more than £850 million invested in Q3 alone, representing a 35% year-on-year increase across multifamily housing, single-family homes, and co-living sectors. The document notes that UK BTR completed stock surpassed 153,367 homes as of Q3 2025 (up 25% compared to Q3 2024), with an additional 54,354 homes under construction expected to bring the sector to over 200,000 operational homes within the next few years, though challenges including construction viability, planning delays, and Gateway approval processes are expected to result in falling completions in coming years.
Knight Frank's Q3 2025 UK Cities Office Market Review analyzes leasing, supply, investment, and rental trends across ten regional UK office markets including Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, and Sheffield. Key findings include leasing activity reaching 2.5 million square feet in the first half of 2025 with year-on-year growth, seven of ten cities recording rental increases as high as 20%, limited new and Grade A space availability at a 3.0% vacancy rate, investment volumes of £373.5 million in H1, and stable prime asset pricing at 6.50%.
Office take-up in the UK regional markets and South East totalled 1.44 million square feet in Q3 2025, representing a 5% increase from Q2 but remaining 14% below the five-year quarterly average, with Grade A space accounting for 72% of activity. Refurbishments comprised 66% of all space delivered in 2025 as new development slowly returned, with 3.4 million square feet under construction across regional markets and headline rents rising in four of the Big Five cities to levels including Bristol at £50 per square foot and Birmingham at £46 per square foot.
Knight Frank's H1 2025 Office Market Mid Year Review examines leasing, supply, investment, and rental trends across ten UK regional cities including Aberdeen, Birmingham, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle, and Sheffield. The report finds that regional leasing activity reached 2.5 million square feet in the first half of 2025 (7% above H1 2024), seven of ten cities recorded year-on-year rental growth reaching as high as 20%, but investment volumes were subdued at £373.5 million and new grade A office space availability remained critically tight at 3.0% vacancy, creating intense competition for quality space.
Manchester's office market saw take-up of 581,974 sq ft across 102 transactions in H1 2025, representing 14% growth versus H1 2024 and 31% above the five-year H1 average, with the TMT sector accounting for 42% of leasing activity. Overall availability decreased to 2.9 million sq ft with an 11.1% vacancy rate, while Prime headline rent stands at £45 per sq ft with expected growth above £50 per sq ft as new speculative development including the 243,000 sq ft Republic scheme commences.
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JLL's 2026 EMEA edition: laboratory space remains a niche asset class with concentrated demand; AI creating cross-industry occupancy opportunities and reshaping facility requirements.
Quarterly Golden Triangle (Oxford, Cambridge, London) take-up, lab supply, rents and VC trends; covers LSIMF government grant programme and AstraZeneca investment.
Irish PBSA review: full-time enrolment over 215,000 with strong international inflows; Dublin facing ~34,300-bed deficit; investment rebounded to EUR 183m transacted in 2025.
Investors committed GBP 4.3bn to UK PBSA in 2025 (up 10% YoY) across 79 deals; 19,600 new beds delivered; 50,250 beds under construction; rental growth slowed to 2%.
UK student accommodation demand, supply and investment trends, covering transaction volumes, visa issuances, rental growth and occupancy ratios for investors and developers.
Knight Frank examines biotech growth and UK property demand, urging investors to focus on knowledge-dense clusters (Cambridge, Oxford, London) and flexible, future-proofed facilities.
Knight Frank's UK life sciences research, tracking biotech company growth (15,436 UK firms, +22% since 2019) and lab supply across the golden triangle.
JLL/QX research on UK PBSA: rising demand and significant structural undersupply, shifting student demographics, regulatory change and routes to more affordable accommodation.
JLL on UK life sciences real estate investment stabilizing after a 2023 dip; equity and debt investors more comfortable backing the sector amid purpose-built lab undersupply in the Golden Triangle.
Annual UK PBSA outlook covering demand, supply, rental growth and investment, with rental growth moderating to 2% in 2025/26 and continued structural undersupply of beds.