Future Space: Industry Insights
Mobilising real estate for UK defence resilience: How will increased UK defence spending impact industrial and logistics real estate?
In our latest insight, we explore the potential composition of demand and why collaboration will be key to delivering the critical infrastructure required for UK defence.
Read the insight hereBrowse our insights on some of the critical issues shaping UK real estate and its supporting infrastructure.
Future Space shows confidence in improving market conditions: labour, technology and power in focus
Now in its ninth year, the Future Space survey was conducted in Q4 2025 by supply chain market analysts Analytiqa on behalf of Tritax Big Box and Savills.
The corporate shake-out shaping logistics demand
Tritax Management’s Head of Research Henry Stratton shares insights on the corporate shakeout shaping UK logistics demand.
Trade turbulence to NI hikes – what’s the impact for logistics real estate?
From Liberation Day and triple digit tariffs to a 90 day pause, US trade news has filled front pages and moved markets, fuelling a predictably unpredictable start to 2025.
We Need Power to Empower the UK Economy
The threat of Scunthorpe’s closure generated national uproar. Protests were held, Chinese ‘sabotage’ blamed, and Labour even saw fit to recall Parliament.
Henry Stratton shares insights on the UK’s logistics real estate occupational and capital markets
Given the positive drivers in our sector, there are many reasons to be optimistic as we look ahead.
5 for 2025: five themes shaping UK logistics real estate
A surprisingly convincing US election result and a tax-raising UK budget, described by the Chancellor herself as a ‘one-off reset’, ensured a lively news flow in the final months of 2024.
Accommodating the future of UK retail
Facing a £7bn hit from higher NI and national living wage, it’s been well reported that many UK retailers are investing (or plan to) in new technologies to protect margins and improve the customer experience.
Future Space Annual is our yearly survey that asks for views on the Industrial and Logistics property sector for the next 12-24 months and beyond. Working in partnership with Savills, we collate responses from key industry players. This includes occupiers across a broad range of sectors, from automotive and grocery to parcel delivery, manufacturers and online-only retailers.
The survey, conducted in the final quarter of 2025, drew 382 responses, providing a robust data set. Occupiers accounted for 47% of responses, with the remaining 53% split between investors, developers and other key industry players.
Nearly a third of occupiers view market conditions as being better than 12 months ago; half believe they have remained the same. Looking forward, 43% are expecting improvement over 2026, whilst 52% believe conditions will remain the same. As confidence improves, occupiers are signalling growing demand: nearly half (47%) expect to increase their warehouse footprint over the next 12 months. Emerging from the census are three challenges that will influence occupiers’ future real estate strategies over the next 10-15 years: achieving net-zero, securing sufficient power, and adapting to changing labour needs.
