Giles Tebbitts is a commercial property analyst with more than 20 years’ experience, specialising in regional office and industrial occupier and investment markets. He has worked at CoStar since May 2022, is based in the Manchester office and is resp...
Giles Tebbitts is a commercial property analyst with more than 20 years’ experience, specialising in regional office and industrial occupier and investment markets. He has worked at CoStar since May 2022, is based in the Manchester office and is responsible for analytics on the North West, Yorkshire and East Midlands markets. He was at Avison Young where he produced regular bulletins on the ‘Big Nine’ regional office and big-box industrial markets to advise clients, support events and generate press coverage.
Giles is a member of the Society of Property Researchers.
The UK office market continues to show a measured recovery, led by resilient demand in London and selective strength across the Big Six regional cities. Meanwhile, the life sciences hubs of Oxford ...
Several UK occupier markets have continued to perform robustly over the past six months, though the story varies by sector and location, according to CoStar’s latest Market Activity Tracker report.
The improving sentiment towards the regional office market seen at the end of last year has translated into robust volumes for the first quarter of 2026. Generally, the slowest quarter, volumes ...
The relationship between online retail sales and warehouse construction has long been a useful indicator of the direction of the logistics real estate market. Over the past decade, both indicators ...
CoStar’s Leeds and Sheffield industrial markets, covering West and South Yorkshire respectively, sit side by side but recent industrial performance tells two different stories. Both benefit from ...
Occupier demand in Leeds’ city centre office market has gravitated south of the river, as Vastint’s Aire Park scheme has emerged as the city’s most popular destination for recent corporate lettings.
There is a wide variance in the supply of the best office space across the Big Six office markets, Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester.
The Manchester City Core office investment market lost its long-term dominance across the city in 2025 as transactions were more evenly spread around the wider central business district.
Staffordshire industrial investment last year reached its highest annual volume since the pandemic "gold rush" years of 2021 and 2022. A total of £405 million was transacted last year, 35% higher ...
Occupier demand remained robust for several office markets over the second half of 2025. London has reasserted its dominance and Bristol has led activity across the Big Six cities, while select ...
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 ...
CoStar’s latest Market Activity Tracker shows that UK occupier markets have maintained robust momentum over the past six months, though performance continues to vary widely across sectors and ...
Key office professionals attended a fifth and penultimate British Council for Offices and CoStar roadshow event this week, exploring the current dynamics of the Manchester office market.
The office market took centre stage this week as industry professionals gathered for a lively British Council for Offices and CoStar event exploring the current dynamics shaping Birmingham’s market.
Wolverhampton’s industrial leasing market surged in 2025, reaching its highest annual total since 2018. The standout activity was driven by one of the largest deals recorded in the submarket, as well ...
Manchester has undergone a dramatic transformation in recent years as a generation of mid-century office blocks has given way to modern, sustainable workplaces. Buildings such as Oddfellows House, ...
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 ...
Servicing the Manchester and Birmingham conurbations to the north and south, aided by the M6, Staffordshire is a key industrial market and a strategic distribution location for logistics operators. ...