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This is a market report on the office sector in Manchester published by Savills in December 2025, providing an autumn 2025 spotlight on that market.
Glasgow's office market recorded 433,781 sq ft of total take-up in 2025 across 137 transactions, the highest annual total on record, with Grade A and Prime take-up reaching 229,087 sq ft (53% of total) and 31% higher than 2024 levels. Prime headline rent remained at £41.50 per sq ft in Q4 2025, having grown 28% over five years, with Savills projecting growth to at least £45 per sq ft by end of 2026 and £50 per sq ft by 2030, while overall availability decreased to 2.1 million sq ft with a 14.1% vacancy rate.
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.
Avison Young's Manchester outlook report assesses the city's real estate market during economic transition marked by rising interest rates, noting that property values have corrected and deal volumes have fallen, though some sectors like Big Box industrial show early recovery signs. The report projects Manchester will outperform the UK on economic growth driven by services and knowledge industries, highlights major office redevelopment schemes attracting major financial institutions, notes a 68% decline in big-box industrial take-up due to economic slowdown and low supply, and identifies Manchester as the second-most active residential investment market after London over the previous decade.
This is a market report published by Colliers in September 2025 providing a snapshot of the office sector in Manchester during the third quarter of 2025. The report covers regional office market conditions in this UK location.
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.
Birmingham's office market recorded take-up of 143,464 sq ft in Q1 2026, with city centre deals totalling 106,724 sq ft across 24 transactions while out-of-town activity generated 36,470 sq ft in 6 deals. Prime rent reached £52 per square foot, representing 12% quarterly growth and 20% annual growth, vacancy remained at 11.4% (down 50 basis points year-on-year), and future supply is constrained with only 155,000 sq ft annually forecast for delivery over 2026–2028 compared to the historical average of 330,000 sq ft.
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 Knight Frank Q3 2025 report examines occupier and investment market trends in the West Yorkshire and Humber logistics and industrial sector, finding that year-to-date take-up stands at 1.8 million square feet with a vacancy rate of 7.5% and prime rents at £10.00 per square foot in Leeds. The occupier market saw modest Q3 activity but strong pipeline momentum, with demand concentrated in 50,000–100,000 square foot units comprising half of all year-to-date take-up, while the investment market strengthened in Q3 with prime industrial yields in Leeds at 5.25% and portfolio transactions expected to dominate the second half of 2025.
Savills Research reports that Leeds office take-up in Q1–Q3 2025 totalled 482,286 sq ft across 78 transactions, representing 12% above the five-year average and 57% Grade A and Prime space, with the Public Services, Education & Health sector accounting for 34% of leasing activity. Total availability at end-Q3 2025 reached 979,103 sq ft with a vacancy rate of 8.0%, while prime rent established a new headline of £46 per sq ft in Q3 2025, up 18% year-on-year, with forecasts predicting growth to over £51 per sq ft by 2029.
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.
Monthly RICS sentiment survey of UK residential sales and lettings conditions for May 2026.
Irish real estate investment reached €2.4 billion in 2025, approximately €800 million in Q4 2025, with retail leading at 30% of transactions by value, followed by office at 27% and the living sector emerging as the third largest sector. Key Q4 deals included Jervis Shopping Centre (€110 million), Project Galaxy student accommodation (€104 million), and Newmarket Square residential (€75 million), while economic indicators showed GDP growth forecast at 1.0% for 2026 and unemployment at 4.8%.
In Q4 2025, Ireland's retail investment market recorded €210.5 million across 9 deals with an average deal size of €23.4 million, down 29% from 2024's €733.4 million in 33 deals, with major transactions including the €110 million sale of Jervis Shopping Centre to Pradera and the €36 million LIDL portfolio sale to ICG. High street prime rental growth reached +1.0%, retail warehouse rental growth +11.4%, and shopping centre rental growth +4.0%, while consumer sentiment declined 17.2% year-on-year but showed signs of improvement in Q4, supported by low unemployment at 5%, average weekly earnings growth of 4.9%, and household deposits of €161 billion.
Ireland's residential investment market contracted significantly following 2022 interest rate hikes and rental regulations, with total investment reaching €481 million in 2024 (10.8% above 2023 but 56% below the ten-year average) and only €10 million deployed in Q1 2025. Dublin apartment completions are projected to decline 40% from 2023 peaks and 17.8% from 2024 levels in 2025, falling far short of the estimated annual requirement of 19,600 to 36,400 units, though analysts expect modest recovery in 2026–2027 supported by government rental sector reforms announced in June 2025 and favorable economic fundamentals including 4% unemployment and a young population demographic.
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.
Glasgow's office market achieved Q1 2026 take-up of 139,900 sq.ft., driven by major deals from Shawbrook, Tesco, and Centrica, with prime rents holding at £41.50 per sq.ft. despite supply constraints and no space currently under construction, though rent uplifts are anticipated for the remainder of the year.
Bristol's office market achieved 604,119 square feet of take-up across 110 transactions in 2025, representing 37% growth over 2024 and 16% above the five-year average, with Grade A and Prime space accounting for 54% of total take-up. Prime headline rent reached £50 per square foot in 2025, a 2% increase, while total availability fell to 1.14 million square feet with a vacancy rate of 8.8%, and the Insurance & Financial sector led activity with 147,507 square feet leased across 14 transactions.
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.
Manchester's office market demonstrates resilience driven by Professional Services, Tech, and Education sectors, with the TMT sector accounting for 50% of graduate retention and dominating take-up, while the Education sector transacted 70,000 sq ft year-to-date in 2025. Savills forecasts the top achieved rent of £45 per sq ft could rise to £52 per sq ft by end of 2026 (16% growth), with 75% of office space expected over the next three years coming from refurbished stock as new-build activity remains constrained at 318,000 sq ft currently under construction.
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.
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.
This is a quarterly data report on the Edinburgh office market published by Savills in September 2025, presenting occupational office figures for the third quarter of 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.
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.
Edinburgh's office market in H1 2025 recorded 197,411 square feet of take-up across 60 transactions (21% higher than H1 2024), with Grade A space particularly strong at 112,588 square feet, while overall availability decreased to 1.7 million square feet with a 12.9% vacancy rate and Prime headline rents holding steady at £48 per square foot. Savills forecasts Prime rents reaching £53–£55 per square foot by end-2029, with the Professional sector leading activity at 27% of take-up and the Business & Consumer sector accounting for 25%.
Bristol's office market in the first half of 2025 recorded 211,653 square feet of take-up across 44 transactions, with Grade A and Prime space accounting for 47% of total activity, while availability decreased to 1.97 million square feet and the vacancy rate fell to 9.5%, indicating constrained supply. Prime rent increased 2% to £49 per square foot—the highest across UK Big 6 markets—with projections anticipating growth to £54 per square foot by 2027, driven by expected 16% GVA growth and 7,920 new jobs in the professional, tech and scientific sector over the next decade.
Bristol's office market faces a critical supply-demand mismatch, with strong occupier demand for high-quality flexible space constrained by a limited pipeline of prime commercial developments; prime rents have grown 28% since end-2019 and are projected to reach £54 per square foot by 2029, with the University of Bristol's £500 million Temple Quarter Enterprise Campus expected to catalyze commercial growth and refurbishment activity. The document identifies refurbished offices as increasingly competitive alternatives to new builds amid supply shortages, with Grade A and Prime buildings accounting for 41% of H1 2025 take-up, while Bristol also positions itself as a leading UK hub for artificial intelligence research backed by £21 million in UKRI funding and home to major aerospace companies valued at over £2.7 billion.
This is a Q1 2026 data-focused report published by Savills presenting occupational office market figures for Birmingham, UK.
JLL's Q1 2026 Birmingham Office Market Dynamics report covers leasing activity, rental rates, and vacancy levels in the Birmingham office market during the first quarter of 2026. The report states that 106,700 square feet transacted in Q1 2026, prime rents rose to £52.00 per square foot, overall vacancy increased to 9.9% while Grade A vacancy remained tight at 4.6%, and space under construction declined as completions exceeded new starts.
Manchester's office market recorded 286,200 square feet of take-up in Q1 2026, with the Government Property Agency accounting for the largest transaction at 114,967 square feet. Total vacancy stood at 10.9% at quarter-end, comprising Grade A vacancy of 5.1% and new build vacancy of 1.9%, while prime city centre rents remained stable at £45.00 per square foot.
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.
Edinburgh's office market recorded 142,300 square feet of take-up in Q1 2026, with professional services as the largest activity sector, and overall vacancy stood at 7.4% at quarter-end. Prime rents reached £49.50 per square foot with 514,200 square feet under construction, of which 54.0% was pre-leased, and forecasts anticipated further rent increases during the remainder of the year.
The Leeds office market recorded 34,300 square feet of take-up in Q1 2026 with a total vacancy rate of 7.2%, while the development pipeline contained 322,000 square feet under construction with 33.0% preleased. Prime rents are expected to remain under pressure as quality space becomes scarce, though demand is anticipated to build over the coming quarters with significant lease activity expected in 2027.
Birmingham's office market experienced strong take-up of 703,430 sq ft in 2025, which was 2% above the five-year annual average, with Grade A and Prime space accounting for 73% of total activity across 100 transactions. Availability fell to 1.7 million sq ft at the end of Q4 2025 (an 11% decrease from the previous quarter), the Prime headline rent reached £46 per sq ft with forecasts predicting further 30% growth to approximately £60 per sq ft by end of 2030, and the Professional sector led demand at 41% of total take-up.
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.
This is a quarterly data report published by Savills on December 31, 2025, presenting occupational office market figures and metrics for Edinburgh, UK as of Q4 2025.
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
Cushman & Wakefield's Q4 2025 MarketBeat report on Regional and South East office markets covers take-up, supply, rental values, and investment activity across the Big Five regional markets (Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Leeds, Manchester) and the South East, finding that 2025 saw 6.4 million sq ft of take-up (10% below 2024 and 13% below the five-year average) and £1,861.7 million in investment (the lowest annual total since 2012), with Q4 showing a 12% quarter-on-quarter increase in take-up driven by Grade A activity and a 10.8% vacancy rate. The report projects 2026 will see continued rental growth, persistent Grade A supply constraints, and increasing investment activity supported by easing interest rates and improving credit conditions, with momentum expected to build as occupier demand for high-quality space and flexibility intensifies.
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.
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Birmingham's office market recorded 288,018 sq ft of take-up in Q4 2025, the highest fourth-quarter figure since 2017, representing a 110% increase from Q4 2024, with annual 2025 take-up totaling 703,430 sq ft and professional services accounting for 40% of activity. Headline rents reached £46 per sq ft in Q4 2025 and subsequently increased to £52 per sq ft in early 2026, with Savills forecasting continued prime rent growth over the next five years as supply remains constrained.