Central London office demand roars back to life as West End occupancy booms August 31, 2022 Central London office take-up has rebounded back to pre-pandemic levels this year and has even surpassed the ten-year average. Occupancy in the heart of the capital bounced back to pre-Covid levels during the 12 months to the end of 2022’s second quarter, according to data from real estate advisor CBRE. Take-up for offices hit 12.7m [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? August 12, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Deloitte Deloitte has built out its financial advisory practice with a new London-based director. Stepping into the real estate team, ex-KPMG Tracey Hancock brings some experiences from across CBRE and JLL. Hancock, a chartered surveyor and registered [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? August 4, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Knight Frank Knight Frank has poached its latest partner from CBRE, as the property consultancy looks to grow its landlord project management offering. James Orchard joins the project and building consultancy team and will advise clients on [...]
Online searches for shared workspaces more than double as more Brits move towards hybrid working July 27, 2022 Interest in companies providing shared workspaces continues to rise as businesses look for new approaches to hybrid working. In fact, online searches for ‘WeWork’ more than doubled (up 144 per cent) in the first six months of 2022 compared to last year, while searches for ‘Workspace’ rose by nearly a third (32 per cent), as [...]
City of London elections: Biggs wants to bring the City back to life June 30, 2022 As the City of London prepares for elections, one candidate wants to reinvigorate the Square Mile. Nigel Biggs is one of five hopefuls in the Walbrook Ward for the forthcoming 7 July vote in the City of London, a municipality which has been functioning since at least 1032. With people spending more time working from [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? June 21, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Ontier Law firm Ontier has built out its London office with a new partner in its commercial litigation team. Amy Harvey, who will focus on asset recovery in cross-border disputes, will be Ontier’s third female partner hire in London in just [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile? April 27, 2022 City A.M.’s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every morning. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. Intuit Intuit, the technology platform behind QuickBooks, Mailchimp and Credit Karmahave hired a new vice president and UK country manager. Jolawn Victor has previously held senior roles at QuickBooks and PepsiCo. Joining from popular meditation app Headspace, where she was chief international officer, [...]
Death of the office? Don’t tell City businesses as leases shoot up in the first quarter April 26, 2022 London’s office market looks fitter and healthier than ever before, according to the two of the UK’s largest property firms, despite the lures of working from home. Take up of office leases in central London shot up 89 per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, CBRE data shared exclusively with City A.M. revealed. City firms [...]
Anytime Fitness eyes 20 new gyms as high street welcomes fitness tenants April 5, 2022 Anytime Fitness is planning to open 20 new gyms this year as it will reap the benefits of the post-lockdown real estate landscape. The gym operator said it had seen landlords drop rents and view the sector more favourably after the pandemic. Anytime Fitness UK’s Ben Dixon said: “It’s fair to say that we’ve often [...]
Bermondsey Reach: Wittington Investments to snap up Southwark development with 300 flats March 25, 2022 Some 300 apartments are being planned for a site in Southwark that reportedly has a £135m development value. The 1.3 acre site has received planning consent for 312 residential flats and more than 20,000 sq ft of retail and commercial floorspace. Centerbridge and Argon Capital have appointed advisors from CBRE and KALMARS on the sale [...]