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The LondonOffices.com Blog features news, views and insight into the vibrant office market that exists here in Central London. In addition to reporting on activity from the London Office Market, our Blog also features business and general interest items on life here in the UK Capital city. You can choose to explore our archive, or view our most recent posts below.

Blackstone Snaps Up London Office Space in Midtown

AUTHOR | AmyD @ March 5, 2013 4:19 pm | Comments (0)

US-based investment giant Blackstone has snapped up an office property in Midtown, London, for a reported £90 million. (more...)

Stickyeyes Agency Opens New London Office

AUTHOR | Alexis @ August 10, 2012 1:10 pm | Comments (0)

A Leeds-based online marketing agency, Stickyeyes, has opened a new office in the heart of London as part of a major expansion plan. While most employees are currently based in Leeds at the firm’s HQ, Stickyeyes hopes to attract new talent to the agency by advertising job opportunities at new offices in both London and Scotland. (more...)

Top Right Breaks Up and Establishes New Offices

AUTHOR | Alexis @ July 25, 2012 2:03 pm | Comments (0)

Major publishing company, Emap, has established new office space on Silicon Roundabout in London as a result of its parent company’s break up. Top Right has separated into three divisions, including magazine publishing operations, Emap. The company will be based in Telephone House on Paul Street by December 2012. (more...)

Amazon to Establish London Office

AUTHOR | Alexis @ July 24, 2012 9:10 am | Comments (0)

Online retail giant, Amazon, has announced plans to open a new office in Central London – right between the City and Silicon Roundabout. The business centre Amazon has selected is an eight-floor office building close to Old Street, providing the large US-based company with 47,000 square feet of space. For this company, London was ‘the obvious choice’. (more...)

Suu Kyi Opens Labour London Offices

AUTHOR | Tom @ June 26, 2012 12:50 pm | Comments (0)

Who would you like to officially open your new offices? Labour take the prize for best attendee as the party gathered to see pro-democracy Burmese opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, open their new London headquarters today. (more...)

BAM to upgrade old government offices in London

AUTHOR | Amy Edwards @ March 23, 2012 9:00 am | Comments (0)

BAM will upgrade former government offices in London.

A sustainable construction company has emerged with the contract for the London offices which used to belong to a department of the British Government. BAM have won a contract which will see them refurbish the former offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) for £23 million. The official office address is 1 Page Street in Westminster and BAM will be working under the contractor who tendered the bid out, Derwent London. (more...)

London office market set for slow 2012

AUTHOR | Amy Edwards @ January 9, 2012 9:00 am | Comments (0)

London commercial properties face uncertain growth during 2012.

A leading commercial property consultant has warned that London faces slow growth during 2012 with office space markets not expected to pick up until next year. London's commercial office market should brace itself for slow growth during 2012 and may not see a large increase in growth until 2013 as firms look to spend money on their existing offices. A report by Jones Lang LaSalle states that rather than businesses moving into new commercial properties around the capital, they will instead reinvest money into upgrading their present offices. (more...)

London office properties could offer great investment for firms

AUTHOR | Amy Edwards @ January 6, 2012 9:00 am | Comments (0)

London office space has a great deal to offer investors.

Office space in London has been praised for its diversity as the city looks to build on its Olympic fillip in 2012 to attract more business within the M25. The London Chamber of Commerce and Industry is promoting the benefits of office space in London as the city looks forward to the Queen's Jubilee and the Olympic Games in 2012. With new office building projects taking shape around the Olympic park and sites in the City and the West End nearing completion, there is expectation that London can retain its place as a top global financial centre. (more...)

London office space braced for a tough 2012

AUTHOR | Amy Edwards @ January 2, 2012 9:00 am | Comments (0)

London may struggle in the commercial office market during 2012.

A leading property market analyst firm have stated that London may struggle in regards to the office property market for the coming year, although it should flourish thereafter. Office markets in London could be in for a tough year, although the office space market in London is predicted to pick up during 2013 when a raft of office properties will be completed. The claims come from a report submitted by Jones Lang LaSalle who believe leasing office space in London will not be as vibrant over the next 12 months. (more...)

More than 50% of offices in the City owned by non-British firms

AUTHOR | Amy Edwards @ November 25, 2011 9:00 am | Comments (0)

Over 50% of London's financial quarter is owned by foreign firms.

Less than 50% of the offices in the City are owned by British property owners according to a report which has been released by a property developer. The majority of commercial office properties in London's City district are now owned by foreign investors for the first time ever, according to a survey carried out by Development Securities PLC. Currently 52% of office properties in London's financial district are owned by foreign investors, meaning that London has overtaken New York City as the city which attracts the most foreign investment in the world. (more...)

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