Reading Office Market Commentary – 2025 Review
2025 Review After another strong performing year in 2025, we have summarised our thoughts on how the Reading office market performed over the last 12 months below. Wider context The broader economic backdrop remained testing for the UK office market during 2025. Despite some signs of slightly improved economic conditions, with slight falls in inflation […]
The return to the office. Where are we?
We hear regularly in the news that employers are hardening their policies in requiring their staff back in the office – but what are we seeing ‘on the ground’ in the local market? There have been numerous headlines about ‘big brand’ employers calling their staff back to the office. Even those firms who were at […]
Reading Retail May 2024
A fluctuating Q1 retail market saw some companies thriving and others struggling, but an overall willingness to adapt. UK-Wide Retail Sector January saw a very quiet start to the year – as if the market was tip toeing quietly into the new year, feeling its way to assess if 2024 was going to be robust […]
Reading Market Commentary – Large Deals
After a positive end to 2023, and signs of more momentum at the start of 2024, we have taken a look back to consider how the Reading office market performed over the last 12 months. Large Deals and Out of Town Dominance The Reading Office market in 2023 will perhaps be most remembered for the […]
Wokingham and Woodley Retail Marketing Commentary
Economic Landscape To set the scene of the economic landscape for this period, base rate is at 4.25%; RPI is at 8.9%; CPI is 10.4% and retail sales have been reducing month on month since April 2022. Energy costs continue to be a dominate issue, particularly for the food and beverage sector due to their […]
Reading Office Market 2022 Review
Subdued levels of market activity in 2022 look set to continue for the first half of 2023 but the prospect of a several major deals and pre-lets in the pipelines bodes well for increased optimism later in the year. In the Greater Reading area, defined as Reading town centre plus the major business parks on […]
Reading Retail Market Commentary Q4 2022
The retail story from 2022 that potentially has the most far reaching implications is in relation to the substantial contraction of the trend for spend to be online, which was shockingly highlighted by the online giant Amazon reporting a quarterly loss of £3.0bn – its first since 2015 – as torrid trading conditions took a […]
Business Market Commentary Q3 2022
Current economic and political uncertainties are being reflected in the performance of the Reading office market so far in 2022. Impact of rising energy costs inflation The impact of the cost-of-living crisis and declining confidence across many business sectors are both weighing heavily on the UK economy with the fall in UK GDP in Q2 […]
Retail Market Commentary Q1 2022
Reading and a round up of 2021 The Retail Landscape The retail market in 2021 was obviously still very affected by lockdown No.3 (January to March), followed by varying other restrictions for the remainder of the year and also wavering consumer confidence. But at least there was more of a return to whatever normality is. […]
Business Market Commentary Q1 2022
Office market recovering despite Pandemic’s long tail Here’s the good news…the Reading office market is improving. This is encouraging but not exactly an earth-shattering revelation. After three lockdowns and workfrom-home-if-you-can directions from HM Government and employers, it is hardly surprising that there is a much more positive outlook as the business world bounces back after […]
