Central London West End

The team is led by five partners, covering investment, development, leasing and asset management services in London’s West End Real Estate Market. Our Partners have a combined 100 years’ experience specialising in the West End sector, supported by a team of Associates and Surveyors. The Allsop West End team was involved in 10% of total London West End market transactions during 2020. Our senior team have worked through at least one downturn and are able to offer insightful and creative property advice.

SPECIALISMS

  • The West End team provides joined up investment, development and leasing advice to deliver outperformance.
  • We provide asset management advice to key clients.

LEASING TEAM

  • Advising on 500,000 sq ft of current acquisitions and disposals.
  • Active instructions range from 1,000 sq ft upwards, predominantly offices.
  • 80% of our work is for Landlords, including Schroders, Aviva Investors, Workspace Plc and The Howard de Walden Estate.
  • Our current pipeline of Landlord work has a project value in excess of £4Bn.

WHY ALLSOP?

  • We are a Partner-led team. We have an in-depth working knowledge of London’s West End property market, our expertise encompasses both the investment and leasing markets, which allows us to provide clients with a joined up approach and to outperform.
  • We are exceptionally creative in the way we approach transactions and uniquely professional in the way we conduct our business.
  • We have unrivalled access to off-market opportunities.

INVESTMENT TEAM

  • Advised on over £1Bn of real estate capital transactions in the last 24 months.
  • Office, retail and mixed-use transactions including education.
  • With our experience and depth of relationships over half of our investment purchases are conducted and exercised off-market.
  • Transactions range from £300M portfolios to small individual lot sizes.
  • Our Asset Management Team offers comprehensive building business plan modelling in association with our Lease Advisory and Valuation teams.
  • We provide development advice with a current advisory work pipeline of over £2Bn.

CLIENTS

  • Include: Abrdn, Brunswick Property Partners, Legal & General, Columbia Threadneedle, M&G Real Estate, Workspace Plc, Lazari Investments, Shun Ho Group, Lifestyle International and Citi Private Bank.

Transactions


INVESTMENT

21 St James’s Square, SW1

  • Freehold
  • 61,381 sq ft fully let office building
  • Purchaser: Pontegadea
  • Client: Columbia Threadneedle Investments
  • Yield: 3.65%

Sale: £187.50m

INVESTMENT

Allsop & Millennium Group Acquisition

1 St James’s Square, SW1

  • Freehold
  • 2-Year sale & leaseback
  • 103,655 sq ft trophy office building
  • Future asset management
  • Client: Private Hong Kong Investor

Purchase: £250.10m

INVESTMENT

The Eversholt, 163-203 Eversholt Street, NW1

  • Freehold
  • 0.91-acre island site
  • Multi-let 110,850 sq ft office building
  • Client: Brunswick Property Partners

Purchase: £110m

INVESTMENT

7 Ridgmount Street

  • 30,000 sq ft office freehold development sale
  • Sale on behalf of a charity

Off-market development sale: c.£200m

INVESTMENT

65-68 South Molton Street & 32 Brook Street, W1

  • Virtual Freehold
  • Multi-let 14,757 sq ft office and retail building
  • Client: Columbia Threadneedle

Sale: £55m

INVESTMENT

One Neathouse Place, SW1

  • Off-market development sale
  • Freehold 117,472 sq ft vacant office and retail building
  • Planning consent for a 716-bed hotel
  • Client: Columbia Threadneedle

Off-market development sale: c.£175m

Key Contacts


West End Investment & Development Team

Nick Pemberton

Partner

West End Investment

Tel. +44(0)20 7543 6775

nick.permberton@allsop.co.uk

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Piers Glover

Partner

Asset Management & Development

Tel. +44(0)20 7543 6810

piers.glover@allsop.co.uk

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Henry Guiver

Partner

Investment & Development

Tel. +44(0)20 7543 6743

henry.guiver@allsop.co.uk

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Will Greasley

Associate

Investment & Development

Tel. +44(0)20 7543 6776

will.greasley@allsop.co.uk

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West End Leasing Team

Richard Townsend

Partner

Leasing

Tel. +44(0)20 7543 6718

richard.townsend@allsop.co.uk

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Harry Theakston

Partner

Leasing

Tel. +44(0)20 7543 6842

harry.theakston@allsop.co.uk

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Charlotte Hawthorne

Associate

Leasing

Tel. +44(0)20 7543 6767

charlotte.hawthorne@allsop.co.uk

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