Track London commercial real estate leasing activity, occupier movements, pre-lets, and corporate relocations. CRE Desk delivers institutional coverage of office take-up, headline rents, lease breaks, incentives, and space requirements across core sub-markets
Leasing
* Reef + Partners and BlackRock Real Estate have signed the non-profit London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA) for 82,000 sq ft at the Tribeca campus in King’s Cross. LISA will occupy six floors of The Reflector, the second building on the campus, which sits along Regent’s Canal.
Leasing
* Gardiner & Theobald has signed for a 54,939 sq ft London headquarters at MEAG’s 30 Finsbury Square, covering 3.5 floors of the building. The space is on floors one to four. The lease starts in 2028 and occupancy is planned for the third quarter of 2029. * Originally
Leasing
* Stripe is close to signing a lease for about 128,000 sq ft at Blackstone’s Broadgate Quarter, on the edge of the City of London. The space is understood to cover the first and second floors and part of the third floor. * The space would be more than three
Leasing
* JP Morgan Asset Management has pre-let approximately 465,000 sq ft at its One Spitalfields development in the City of London to quantitative trading firm Jane Street * Jane Street will roughly double its existing London footprint, moving from its current premises at Devonshire Square once redevelopment completes, expected in
Leasing
* Deutsche Bank has agreed a 15-year lease on approximately 150,000 sq ft across five floors (levels one to five) at YY London, 30 South Colonnade, Canary Wharf, with occupation expected from early 2028 * Building owners Oaktree Capital Management and Quadrant Estates were advised by Knight Frank and CBRE