Backpackers’ favourite Lonely Planet is looking to travel into a new central London headquarters and leave White City, W12.
The travel guide book publisher has appointed Matthews & Goodman to find it up to 30,000 sq ft of offices in the capital, with a focus on Midtown and King’s Cross.
The appointment comes after BBC Worldwide agreed in March to sell Lonely Planet for £51.5m to NC2 Media – a US business controlled by billionaire businessman Brad Kelley.
The firm is based at the Beeb’s Wood Lane premises but wants to move closer to the West End in 2014 and into slightly larger premises.
The requirement is the latest in a spate of property activity from publisher tenants.
The UK arm of French publishing giant Hachette is looking for a 90,000 sq ft headquarters, with a focus on King’s Cross, while next year HarperCollins will relocate from Fulham Palace Road, W6, to The Place, SE1, which it will share with other subsidiaries of Rupert Murdoch’s News UK.
