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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%.

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.

Manchester's office market recorded 771,511 square feet of take-up across 147 transactions in Q1–Q3 2025, with the TMT sector accounting for 37% of activity and Grade A and Prime space comprising 50% of total take-up. Total availability declined 3% to 2.8 million square feet by end-Q3 2025, reducing the overall vacancy rate by 40 basis points to 10.7%, while Grade A vacancy fell to 2.9% and Prime remained at 2.1%.

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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Review of office activity across 18 major European markets, with take-up down 16% year-on-year to 1.67m sqm and widening rent gaps between prime and secondary locations.
Examines how AI and machine learning firms concentrate in the Bay Area, New York and London, with AI leasing remaining strong across San Francisco and Manhattan's AI leasing already surpassing all of 2025.

Quarterly review of take-up and investment across the UK's nine major regional office markets, tracking occupier demand, prime rents and the grade-A supply shortfall.

Quarterly review of UK big box / grade-A logistics occupier and investment activity, with take-up rebounding 37% year-on-year to 6.9m sq ft in Q1 2026.

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.

The Europe chapter of LaSalle's ISA Outlook 2026, arguing European real estate is breaking out of the cycle with strong occupier demand in luxury high streets and prime city-center offices.

Avison Young experts examine global real estate investment trends and cross-border capital flows, covering the London office resurgence, US debt liquidity and the 2026 investor outlook.

AEW's European outlook across 20 countries projects prime all-sector returns of 8.4% p.a., with the UK ranked highest at 10.3% and office the best-performing sector, amid recovering transaction volumes.

Review of UK shopping centre and high street investment and occupier markets, with sound fundamentals, resilient prime schemes and rising H1 investment volumes.

Analysis of the recovering UK retail investment market, with steady institutional demand and improving sentiment as buyers respond to rental growth and relative stability.

Monthly snapshot of UK commercial property investment activity, yields and sentiment across the office, industrial and retail sectors.

Sector-by-sector breakdown of the outlook for UK commercial real estate investment in 2025, assessing how economic recovery and interest-rate moves shape each asset class.

The quarterly snapshot reviews UK commercial real estate performance, returns and investor sentiment, with retail expected to be a standout sector as capital returns at greater scale.
The quarterly briefing tracks Central London office take-up, supply and prime rents. It continues the firm's coverage of a market where Grade A demand has dominated leasing activity.

Savills reports first quarter 2026 take-up rose 11 percent in logistics and 6 percent in Central London offices year over year. Offices are the firm's most favoured 2026 investment pick on attractive relative pricing.

Montagu Evans reports the strongest UK investment volumes in four years in the fourth quarter, led by offices and industrial, with momentum expected to be sustained through a gradual improvement.

The quarterly snapshot reports UK real estate delivered a total return of 7.1 percent in 2025, with rental growth and improved investor sentiment heading into 2026.
The Q4 2025 monitor identified early signs of stabilisation across the UK commercial property market despite continued macroeconomic headwinds from inflation and elevated bond yields.

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.

A total of 17.5 billion pounds was traded in UK commercial property in Q4 2025, a 78 percent increase quarter-on-quarter and 13 percent rise year-on-year, roughly 32 percent above the five-year quarterly average. Industrial investment rose sharply while office and retail activity also recovered.
The quarterly update reviews Central London office take-up and supply closing 2025, building on year-to-date activity of 8.9 million sq ft through Q3, a 19.3 percent uplift on the same period in 2024. Grade A space continued to drive demand.

Montagu Evans assesses a complex UK economic picture at year-end 2025 with slowing GDP growth and easing inflation, noting resilience in Central London leasing and selective investor appetite in industrial and residential.

The quarterly survey aggregates independent forecasts for UK commercial property rental value growth, capital value growth and total returns across sectors through 2029.

The quarterly snapshot of UK real estate market trends features retail warehousing as the theme in focus.

In its 23rd edition, the report found sentiment shifting from cautious optimism to pragmatism, with the share of leaders concerned about deglobalisation more than doubling to 70 percent, while London, Madrid, Paris and Berlin led the city rankings.
The briefing notes Central London office investment up 15 percent year on year and industrial volumes up 13 percent, with cross-border investment into logistics up 27 percent. It frames the UK macro backdrop shaping commercial real estate capital flows.

Savills tracks UK commercial investment activity and pricing across sectors. UK 2025 investment volume reached 54 billion pounds, 4 percent up on the prior year.

Gerald Eve's Prime Logistics analysis reported UK availability falling to 7.9 percent in Q3 from 8.6 percent in Q2, the first decline in nearly three years, with total take-up of 13.2 million square feet, up 6 percent year on year.
Q3 2025 take-up reached 2.7 million sq ft, down 12.9 percent on Q2, with Grade A space accounting for 72 percent of activity. West End prime rents held at 170 pounds per sq ft, up 6.3 percent year on year, while supply fell to 23.5 million sq ft.

Allsop partners reviewed Central London commercial market volumes and investor sentiment through Q3 2025, discussing transaction trends and pricing.

The Q4 2025 UK outlook reviews the closing position of the year and the trajectory into 2026, focusing on income-led returns across the living, industrial and retail sectors.

Both occupier and investor sentiment slipped into negative territory, to minus 12 and minus 10 respectively, with tenant demand at a net balance of minus 10 percent and the Autumn Budget acting as a brake on decision-making.

The quarterly table compiles index, dividend yield and performance metrics across the FTSE EPRA Nareit listed real estate universe at the third quarter of 2025.

The quarterly survey aggregates independent forecasts for UK commercial property returns, with West End office leading rental value growth among sectors.
The mid-year update views real estate as fair value in Europe, the UK and APAC after the big price reset. Questions over US policy direct greater investor interest toward those markets.

With yields expected to hold broadly stable, Capital Economics sees UK commercial property delivering steady income led returns. Retail is positioned as the top performing sector on a strong income return.

UK property investment slipped to a two-year low in the second quarter of 2025, with 8.8 billion pounds of assets changing hands. The total was 6 percent below the first quarter and the lowest since the second quarter of 2023.
The quarterly industrial and logistics review tracks UK warehouse take-up, supply and investment trends. It continues BNP Paribas Real Estate's recurring coverage of the sector's leasing and capital market dynamics.

Carter Jonas reviews UK commercial property investment volumes for the second quarter of 2025 across the office, industrial, retail and alternative sectors. The report tracks pricing and investor selectivity amid a gradually improving market.

Montagu Evans notes gilt yields fell by 20 to 25 basis points over the prior month, providing support for UK property investment and development at mid-year 2025.

The Q3 2025 UK outlook maintains a constructive view on living, industrial and retail sectors, with income returns continuing to drive performance amid limited yield compression.

The summer 2025 update assessed UK commercial and residential investment activity, covering national investment, the hotel market, build to rent and auction performance.

HVS London and HVS Hodges Ward Elliott reviewed first-half European hotel investment activity, tracking transaction volumes and the most liquid single-asset markets across the region.

Montagu Evans' Residential Land Survey assesses UK residential land values and development sentiment across key markets in 2025.

The quarterly snapshot of UK real estate market trends features retail warehousing as the theme in focus.

Total UK investment transaction volume reached 9.3 billion pounds in the first quarter of 2025. Despite a subdued start the office sector delivered its best quarterly performance in almost two years.

Montagu Evans reports improving UK property return forecasts for 2025, anticipating three further base rate cuts that would leave the rate at 3.5 percent by year-end.

Carter Jonas reports first quarter 2025 UK commercial property investment volumes and pricing trends across the major sectors. The report assesses investor sentiment as the market entered the year.

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