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.
Federated Hermes' disposal of a large-scale office in central Birmingham has been named Sale of the Year for the West Midlands in the CoStar Impact Awards after becoming "one of the most significant regional office transactions" of last year.
MEPC's Three Chamberlain Square office in central Birmingham has won a CoStar 2026 Impact Award for its contribution to regenerating the area and boosting the local economy.
A significant deal agreed between the University of Birmingham and Bruntwood SciTech to create a health innovation campus has been crowned Lease of the Year for West Midlands by an independent panel of real estate professionals judging the CoStar Impact Awards.
Global professional services firm EY has agreed to sublet a floor at Baillie Gifford's Edinburgh offices, securing a substantial relocation in the city.
Redical, the real estate owner-operator and investment manager launched by Mikko Syrjanen and Petteri Barman in 2020, has completed it acquisition of the Merry Hill shopping centre in the West Midlands for around £290 million.
Delegates from the UK were the second largest contingent at the Mipim event in Cannes, as some of them looked to open up billions of pounds worth of real estate investment opportunities to the world.
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 repurposed, is setting the stage for vacancies to gradually tighten across many cities.
Industrial and logistics developer Erdgard, in partnership with Richardson family business, has submitted a planning application for an industrial and logistics scheme in Brackmills, Northampton, in the Golden Triangle, with a gross development value of £51 million.
Birmingham Council is looking to secure significant investment to regenerate four hectares of "under-used retail and office space" in the city centre alongside major landowners in the city.
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 overwhelmingly by the Golden Triangle of Oxford, Cambridge and London, which accounted for almost 80% of activity – the largest share since 2017.
Apache Capital is considering the sale of a more than €1 billion UK built-to-rent portfolio alongside its institutional investor partners Harrison Street and NFU Mutual.
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 set to lift the market in the months ahead.
Hammerson, the retail-led city development-focused UK REIT, has posted record leasing figures, a major lift in its portfolio value and committed to more acquisitions in its full year results for the year ended 31 December.
Legal & General have agreed a deal to lease the remaining space at The Spark, its office building in Newcastle city centre, to Arden University as part of the business’ office expansion.