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Knight Frank's H1 2025 report on Krakow assesses the city's investment attractiveness, office market dynamics, and labor market trends. Key findings include Krakow ranking 1st in business friendliness and human capital among large European cities in the fDi's 2025 ranking, with 1.83 million sq m of office stock, record H1 2025 take-up of 172,000 sq m (including nearly 123,000 sq m in Q2 alone), a vacancy rate of 17.3%, and headline rents stable at EUR 10–18 per sq m/month, while an HR perspective section examines EU pay transparency directive implementation challenges beginning December 2025 and notes that 53% of Poland's active real estate agents are women.

Warsaw's warehouse market comprised 7.1 million square meters of total stock at the end of Q2 2025, accounting for 19.6% of Poland's total warehouse space, with approximately 80% located in Zone II (12-50 km from the city center). In H1 2025, new supply totaled over 155,000 square meters (a 30% decline year-over-year), leasing volume reached nearly 550,000 square meters (an 18% increase), vacancy rose to 6.6%, and approximately 430,000 square meters remained under construction.

The Dutch Logistics Market Report 2026 covers investment and occupier market trends, assessing supply and demand, pricing, and future market prospects in Dutch logistics real estate. The report finds that the Dutch logistics investment market stabilized in 2025 with total investment volume of approximately €3.1 billion, while core transaction activity increased as investor appetite shifted toward stabilizing yields, vacancy rose to approximately 4.50% concentrated in older stock, and rental growth remained positive but moderated compared to prior years, with prime net initial yield for Tier 1 assets at around 4.60%.

Amsterdam's office market recorded solid leasing activity in 2025 with take-up reaching approximately 210,000 sq m, driven primarily by the South Axis and city centre where occupiers sought prime, ESG-compliant buildings. Investment volumes in Amsterdam totalled approximately EUR 651 million in 2025, the highest among Dutch cities, with prime gross initial yields standing at 5.25% and improved financing conditions attracting family offices and domestic capital.

Lisbon's residential market has shifted from primarily investment-driven demand to lifestyle-focused appeal, with prime prices rising 2.7% in 2025 and forecast to increase another 4.5% in 2026, supported by tight supply of around 2,000 new homes delivered annually, €3.9 billion in foreign direct investment in 2025, and broadening buyer diversity from the US, France, Brazil, and China. Secondary segments including Comporta and Cascais are gaining prominence as international buyers prioritize long-term positions, rental income potential, and infrastructure development, while policy tightening around the Golden Visa and NHR schemes has not deterred demand sustained by visa channels including D2 and D7 permits, with over 386,000 residence permits issued by October 2025.

This is a market report published by Knight Frank in September 2025 covering the French investment market as of the third quarter of 2025. The report focuses on capital markets activity in France, with particular reference to Paris.

Paris's prime residential market continues to demonstrate resilience despite a barrage of headwinds, according to Knight Frank's Residential Paris Market Insight 2025 report released in June 2025.

The Knight Frank study examines the Greater Lyon office market in the first half of 2025, finding approximately 100,000 square meters of space leased over six months as the market enters a stabilization phase following 2024's slowdown. Demand is increasingly polarized between prime-quality buildings and struggling secondary assets, with activity remaining below historical averages amid ongoing economic fragility.

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.

This is a market report published by Knight Frank at the end of 2025 covering the office sector in the Greater Paris Region. The report presents Q4 2025 findings for the Paris office market in France.

Knight Frank's 2025 review examines Birmingham's residential development market, analyzing growth drivers including life sciences and technology investment, the pending HS2 arrival, and approved major development schemes expected to deliver approximately 8,000 new homes alongside new offices and public spaces. The document reports that Birmingham's economy is projected to expand 19% from £34.0 billion in 2025 to £40.6 billion by 2035, with housing delivery reaching 4,546 net additions between 2023 and 2024, though this remains below the long-term average of 2,700 homes annually and the newly proposed local target of 4,448 homes per year.

The Knight Frank UK Cities 2025 Office Market Annual Review examines leasing and investment activity across ten regional UK office markets, reporting that annual take-up reached 5.0 million sq ft with Q4 delivering the strongest quarterly performance, while Grade A space accounted for 61% of all transactions amid persistent flight to quality. Investment volumes totaled £916 million for the year, 28% below 2024 levels, though momentum strengthened in Q4 with £291 million transacted, and prime yields across regional cities ranged from 6.50% in Edinburgh to 10.00% in Aberdeen, offering substantial premiums to London benchmarks.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.

Knight Frank's 2025 review of the West Yorkshire and Humber logistics and industrial sector reports that occupier take-up rose 15% year-on-year to 2.4 million square feet, marking the third consecutive annual increase, with demand concentrated in units of 100,000 to 200,000 square feet and distribution firms accounting for 67% of activity. Prime industrial yields in Leeds remained stable at 5.25% throughout 2025, and investment activity strengthened in the second half of the year with notable transactions including LondonMetric's £17 million purchase of the Booker warehouse and M7 Real Estate's £49 million acquisition of West Yorkshire assets, though limited speculative development is creating a supply-demand imbalance expected to constrain activity through 2026.

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%.

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.

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%.
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 UK SFH report: record 31 SFH deals (up 24% YoY), SFH share of BTR volume surging from 2% (2020) to 43% (2024); £1.8bn invested, potential for 1M+ homes at maturity.

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.

Knight Frank's UK science & innovation insight PDF: golden-triangle lab availability up 68% YoY to 1.2M sq ft with 3.65M sq ft under construction through 2028.
Sector-by-sector sustainability outlook for 2025 covering energy efficiency, green leases, renewable adoption in data centres, and tightening energy regulations.

Knight Frank survey of property investors on ESG priorities, decarbonization strategy, retrofit and net-zero positioning across real estate portfolios.

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.

Knight Frank's flagship global corporate real estate research bringing data-led insight on the future direction of office occupancy, workplace strategy and corporate space requirements.

A thematic study of the office trends reshaping European capital markets, charting the sector's recovery and transformation across the continent's major business hubs.

Thematic research on the structural drivers of European logistics demand, examining how supply chains, nearshoring and e-commerce are shaping the continent's industrial property market.

Knight Frank's review of US residential market dynamics, covering pricing, demand and prime-market trends across major American cities.

London office take-up reached 12.1 million square feet across 1,400 deals in 2025, the strongest performance since the pandemic, with investment turnover up 45 percent to 9.3 billion pounds.

Knight Frank's Active Capital survey captured the views and investment intentions of 119 of the world's largest global real estate investors, tracking 144 billion dollars of capital.

The Q1 2025 report tracked London office leasing and investment activity, highlighting constrained new-build vacancy and continued upward pressure on prime rents.

In its 19th edition, the report found the number of individuals with assets exceeding 10 million dollars rose 4.4 percent in 2024 to over 2.3 million globally, with 44 percent of family offices looking to increase real estate allocations.