26 December 2025
CoStar News Hotels podcast network rewinds on 2025
It's time to unveil the 2025 CoStar News Hotels wrapped, podcast edition.
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26 December 2025Advice from Barry Sternlicht, lower-than-expected demand top hotel headlines of the year
What will be the legacy of 2025 in the hotel industry?
24 December 2025Luxury hotels have underpinned revenue growth in the UK
Hotel class performance in the UK presents a mixed picture as the year draws to a close, according to CoStar data.
24 December 2025Hotel sector year in review 2025: a year of two halves
The UK hotel sector navigated a complex landscape in 2025, marked by shifting consumer behaviour, uneven performance across markets and evolving investment strategies. Despite macroeconomic headwinds, the market demonstrated resilience, supported by events, international travel, a mostly positive supply landscape and targeted capital deployment.
24 December 2025The big UK office round-up: How was 2025 for your market?
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 country, as companies re-sized footprints and adapted to new working practices unleashed – perhaps temporarily – by the pandemic, net absorption of office space turned positive in 2025 as companies occupied 1 million square feet more space than they vacated in the first three quarters of the year. It was also the year when demand broadened beyond the super-prime office buildings that had been driving all the demand.- 23 December 2025
This year’s biggest UK hotel transactions
The UK is considered one of the most liquid markets in Europe, attracting global investors to invest in real estate, including hospitality assets. - 23 December 2025
Top 20 UK stories of 2025
The CoStar news team broke exclusive stories, beat our rivals to reveal major news and made more must-read content than ever before. We launched a podcast, and broke the news of some of the biggest deals of the year. 
23 December 2025A look back at hotel openings that made their mark in the regional UK markets in 2025
The UK remains an attractive market for hotel development, with investors and operators continuing to seek opportunities in key locations. Despite its challenges and a general slowdown in construction activity, approximately 11,500 rooms are underway across the regional UK markets.
22 December 2025UK hotels could not pass on inflationary increases to consumers in 2025
A lack of pricing power throughout 2025 has negatively affected average daily rates, which have mostly lagged inflationary increases, according to CoStar data.
22 December 2025Spotlight on Staffordshire industrial: Subdued demand lifts vacancy to a 10-year high
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. Manufacturers JCB and Jaguar Land Rover, retailers such as B&Q, Tesco and Sainsbury's and online players like Amazon and Ocado, have significant industrial and distribution centres located here. These are the key trends affecting the market:
22 December 2025A look at the hotels that shook up the London market in 2025
Over 3,000 hotel rooms are expected to have opened this year, according to CoStar data.
18 December 2025The gap between average daily rates in London and Edinburgh narrows
London and Edinburgh achieve the highest average daily rates in the UK, with London topping the rankings. However, over the past five years, Edinburgh’s hotel prices have closed the gap with those in London, as the demand profile in Scotland began to shift.
18 December 2025Spotlight: Glasgow's life sciences sector emerges from the shadows
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 the city’s commercial property market.- 17 December 2025
Spotlight on Edinburgh hotels: Conversions underpin new openings
Edinburgh’s appeal as a destination has translated into a significant increase in hotel developments, as falling office and retail property values have lowered the barriers to entry. As a result, conversions are expected to underpin new openings over the next two to three years, according to CoStar data. 
16 December 2025Little and large: Lowest vacancy rates at size extremes in the North West industrial market
The North West industrial vacancy rate has moved from the lowest in the country to sit in line with the national average at 5.4%. While this is a 10-year high and up from a low base of 2% in 2022, it is still well below the previous peak of 9.5% in 2012.
12 December 2025UK economy shrinks in October, driven by a slowdown in construction and services
The UK economy contracted by 0.1% in October, as activity weakened ahead of the autumn budget.
12 December 2025A better-than-expected third quarter leads to year-end UK hotel forecast upgrade
UK hotel forecasts indicate moderate revenue per available room growth in 2026, according to the latest STR forecasts. Meanwhile, full-year 2025 forecasts have been marginally upgraded, following a better-than-expected third quarter, bolstering 2025 annual results.- 11 December 2025
Spotlight on Manchester hotels: Pricing struggles as development shows no signs of slowing
Manchester city centre’s hotel landscape has continued to expand, with ongoing supply additions limiting hoteliers’ ability to drive top-line trading performance. 
11 December 2025The Big Six speculative office developments to watch out for in 2026
Cautious investor sentiment, elevated construction costs and high vacancy rates have kept new office construction starts muted across the Big Six regional office markets of Birmingham, Bristol, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Leeds and Manchester. Following several years of declining activity, from over 7 million square feet in 2019, space under construction across the Big Six has reached a long-term low of 1.5 million square feet.
10 December 2025From caution to confidence: capital set to flow back to UK regional offices
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 towards optimism. High but stabilising yields, robust prime rental growth and renewed overseas interest are setting the stage for a stronger 2026.
