Property management company MAPP has doubled its office space in central London and taken new offices in Glasgow, as part of its expansion drive.
MAPP has extended its offices at 180 Great Portland Street, W1, by an additional 6,000 sq ft. It has also signed for new office space at Onyx in Bothwell Street, Glasgow.
The additional workspace in London, which is expected to be completed and ready for occupation by the end of May, will provide a blend of dedicated desks, flexible workspaces, collaborative work zones, café and lounge areas, training and conference facilities and a media room.
The company is on a recruitment drive in response to a number of new client mandates in recent months, which involve managing a range of UK-wide portfolios of commercial and mixed-use properties in London and key regional cities.
New instructions include the appointment to manage Gary Neville’s No.1 St Michael’s flagship mixed-use scheme in Manchester, and 1m sq ft of office space and retail, leisure and residential units in London’s Spitalfields.
The company hired its 600th employee in January this year, marking a 25% increase in staff since the end of 2021. It has also created new roles including a head of building technology, head of building transition and head of facilities management.
Last year, the company acquired flexible workspace operator RE-Defined and launched a technical services team to support its ESG offer.
Nigel Mapp, chief executive at MAPP, said: “The significant investment we are making into our own workspace demonstrates our commitment to the wellbeing of our people. We are providing a contemporary, collaborative and vibrant environment for our people to enjoy and perform creatively and productively.
“It is also testimony to our unwavering conviction of the role of the office in bringing people together and creating a community which embodies the company’s culture and enables people to work to the absolute best of their ability.
“I firmly believe that our growth can be attributed to the industry realising the integral role property management has to play in driving retention, loyalty, demand and rental growth. After a long time in the wings, property management has emerged on the centre stage as a vital part of any investor or landlord real estate strategy. That is resulting in a flight to quality.”
MAPP manages a portfolio of more than 1,000 buildings, valued at £25bn. It said it has doubled in size since the start of the pandemic.
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