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Agent regains top spot despite a drop of 10%

Savills has reclaimed top spot in EG’s M25 office league table, having come third last year.

Pushing JLL into second place, Savills disposed of 592,000 sq ft across 40 deals and cemented its position by acting jointly with JLL on the largest deal in the market: the 184,000 sq ft letting to HMRC at Ruskin Square, Croydon.

The firm was also the only agent to register a top-five finish in each quadrant of the M25, notching up the largest average deal size at 14,800 sq ft and securing 17% of the market.

Overall, take-up has fallen by a quarter year-on-year to 3,500,000 sq ft, despite some chunky deals.

Online retailers made their presence felt, snapping up big floorplates with Ocado taking 149,000 sq ft at Trident Place in Hatfield and ASOS moved into 73,000 sq ft at Leavesden Park, Watford; the second and third largest deals, respectively.

Going up

Hanover Green LLP increased its market share by a third on last year, leaping six places to third; scoring a victory in the South West quadrant with 200,000 sq ft disposed.

Going down

BNP Paribas Real Estate and Strutt & Parker. Both drop out of this year’s top 10. Amid market rumour of BNP PRE buying Strutts; a combined offer would still not have been enough to break into this year’s top bracket.

Key stats

      • Total space disposed: 3,516,455 sq ft, down 24% on 4,656,290 sq ft last year
      • Average deal size: 4,400 sq ft, down 7% on 4,727 sq ft
      • Deal numbers were down 19% on last year
      • Top 10 agents accounted for 52% of take-up, down 8% on last year

M25 Office League Table – disposals 01 April 2016 to 31 March 2017

Agent Total space disposed (sq ft) Number of deals Average deal size
1 (3) Savills 591,849 40 14,796
2 (1) JLL 470,282 34 13,832
3 (9) Hanover Green LLP 382,430 49 7,805
4 (-) Knight Frank 341,222 32 10,663
5 (8) Cushman & Wakefield 300,316 30 10,011
6 (5) CBRE 230,793 21 10,990
7 (n/a) Brasier Freeth 213,477 67 3,186
8 (n/a) Colliers International 210,665 24 8,778
9 (n/a) Dowley Turner Real Estate LLP 195,025 14 13,930
10 (6) Lambert Smith Hampton 154,768 35 4,422

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