Future Space: Industry Insights
Power On: Are you switched on to how logistics real estate can power productivity?
In our latest insights, we look at how today's labour market, technology adoption and power resilience interconnect, as well as the future impact on logistics real estate.
Read the insights hereBrowse our insights on some of the critical issues shaping UK real estate and its supporting infrastructure.
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.
Join Head of Tritax Big Box’s Manchester Office, David Travis, Savills' National Head, Industrial & Logistics, Toby Green, and CEO of the UK Warehousing Association (UKWA), Clare Bottle, as they discuss this year’s survey in the podcast below.
The survey, conducted in Q4 2024, drew a record 330 responses, providing a robust data set. Occupiers comprised ~40% of responses and the remaining ~60% was split between investors, developers and other key industry players.
Occupiers see market conditions as slightly improved compared to six months ago, but continue to face diverse and evolving operational challenges, with the cost of labour now the most significant. The drivers of demand for logistics real estate, meanwhile, are multifactorial and extend beyond pure business expansion. Technology adoption and fleet evolution are strategic priorities, all of which have ramifications for power availability, quality of real estate and ESG.
Investors and developers were more positive than occupiers on market conditions. Power availability is considered a critical issue by both groups, which is unsurprising given the constraints currently faced by the national grid. Investors are more concerned with the overall health of the economy, and developers with the time taken to get planning permission and construction costs.
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