Grant Lonsdale

AI adoption, the 5G rollout and supportive government policy are pushing the UK into its fastest-ever phase of data centre construction, particularly across London and the South East.

The UK’s regional office markets entered 2026 with a supply-demand profile that looks markedly different from recent years. A slowdown in development, together with ageing stock being removed or ...

UK life sciences demand reached a new record in 2025, with laboratory leasing rising to its highest level in at least a decade. Nearly 960,000 square feet of lab space was acquired nationwide, driven ...

French real estate funds are expected to remain a meaningful source of capital for the UK market through 2026, building on the strong momentum seen last year when they deployed £1.1 billion, an 85% ...

Leicester’s position at the heart of the Golden Triangle has long underpinned its role as a key logistics hub, even as the market has navigated a period of rising vacancy and softer occupier demand. ...

This week, CoStar hosted the webinar “2026 regional office outlook: time to look beyond London?”, where regional office experts Grant Lonsdale and Giles Tebbitts, based in Glasgow and Manchester, ...

An upturn in occupier activity and stronger sentiment towards regional offices have yet to translate into a substantial improvement in volumes, though significant transactions in the pipeline look ...

Key Scottish industry figures gathered in Glasgow last week in the second of a series of roadshows to discuss the key trends unfolding in a recovering but still-challenged office market north of the ...

Office investment volumes in Coventry hit a four-year high in 2025, with early figures showing around £60 million transacted, more than treble the previous year’s total and 20% above the five-year ...

As investor interest shifts towards regional offices, CoStar examines market conditions in Hertfordshire, immediately north of London.

Amid heightened geopolitical uncertainty and rising government investment in national security, defence companies and their supply chains have become significant drivers of industrial space demand.

To office market participants and observers, 2025 marked the year when the recovery finally began. Following four-and-a-half years of heavy demand losses totalling 48 million square feet across the ...

While the UK’s “Golden Triangle” of London, Oxford and Cambridge dominates the life sciences narrative, Glasgow is quietly cultivating an ecosystem of its own, one that has the potential to benefit ...

After two years of subdued activity, the UK’s regional office market is poised for a resurgence. Investor sentiment, recently dampened by rising interest rates and economic uncertainty, is shifting ...

Edinburgh’s office market is set for its weakest year for take-up since 2008, reflecting a lack of suitable supply in the right locations and lingering caution among some types of occupiers over ...

The number of months that UK office and industrial investment sales spend on the market before transacting has started to fall, after reaching a four-year peak in 2025.

The UK economy heads into tomorrow’s Autumn Budget with a complex backdrop of slowing growth, fragile confidence and easing inflation.

IM Properties has confirmed global logistics giant DSV will take 600,000 square feet at Mercia Park, reinforcing confidence in the UK’s Golden Triangle logistics heartland. The deal marks a turning ...

A wave of office-to-residential conversions is reshaping Leicester’s city centre, as developers respond to structural change in the office sector and rising demand for housing.

Glasgow’s office investment market is stirring back to life as 2025 draws to a close, with opportunistic buyers homing in on assets ripe for repositioning amid softer pricing and a shortage of ...