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  • Realest’s View on the Future of Office Working Practice

    Plenty has been written about this, but below Realest’s view on the future of office working practice. We see this from two principal perspectives: The Employee The Employer The Employee’s Perspective There is no easy way to generalise this. Different sectors, demographics, cultural differences and different parts of the same company will impact what staff […]

  • Realest Appoints Guy Jones

    Realest are excited to announce the appointment of Guy Jones as Equity Director. Working within our Professional Services team, he will provide lease advisory and corporate real estate advice across the south coast, handling all types of commercial property. Guy joins us from Hellier Langston and has over 15 years professional services experience with past roles at […]

  • Realest Appoints New Consultant

    We are very pleased to advise that Realest has appointed Nigel Warwick as a Consultant to our group with immediate effect. Nigel has worked with three of the Realest Directors in the past but for the last 18 years he has been ”in-house” with major corporate occupiers rising to Group Head of Real Estate and […]

  • The Future of Offices and Office Based Working

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    As we approach the beginning of the end of Lockdown, in this article we have considered what the ‘new normal’ will mean for offices and office based working. Whilst there has been the necessity for home working through these uncertain times, is this going to become a fundamental element of corporate operational strategy moving forward? […]

  • Realest appoints Adrian Whitfield to lead south coast industrial team

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    Realest has appointed Adrian Whitfield to head up its south coast Industrial and Logistics team. Adrian, who has more than 30 years’ experience in the sector, joins Realest’s Southampton-based team after a successful 15 years at the south coast offices of Lambert Smith Hampton. His experience covers schemes of all sizes from small and mid-sized […]

  • Plans Submitted for St. Modwen Park Poole

    – Up to 195,931 sq ft of space will be available to potential industrial and logistics occupiers – Our client, St. Modwen has now submitted a planning application to Poole Borough Council to speculatively build three new, high-quality units at its 10.8-acre site in Poole, Dorset. Realest acquired the site for St. Modwen in April […]

  • Realest Wins IAS National Deal of the Year

    Realest have won the prestigious Industrial Agents Society’s (IAS) National Deal of the Year award for the forward purchase and development of a new Aerospace Manufacturing Centre of Excellence and Global Headquarters near Coventry on behalf of Meggitt plc. The new building which is nearing completion will comprise a circa 500,000 sq ft facility making […]

  • St. Modwen grow South East logistics portfolio with acquisition of 10.8 acre site in Poole, Dorset

    Realest are delighted to have advised St. Modwen on the acquisition of a 10.8 acre site north west of the centre of Poole as a key part of its growing reach and geographic diversification in the South East region. The site is allocated in the local plan for 160,000 sq ft (14,850 sqm) of space, […]

  • Old Mutual Wealth – Old Mutual Point, Southampton – Lease Renewal & Dilapidations

    Old Mutual Wealth appointed Realest in respect of the renewal of their 67,000 sq ft office building. They needed a short, flexible lease which was not available by the Lease Renewal process. David Ferriman worked with Old Mutual Wealth and their lawyers, including a QC, and was successful in negotiating a series of individual leases […]

  • Realest secure Smith & Williamson for Kingsbridge Estates’ landmark property

    Acting on behalf of Kingsbridge Estates, South Coast commercial property specialists Realest have let the 4th and 5th floors of Cumberland House to Smith & Williamson, one of the UK’s leading accountancy firms. The deal which sees Smith & Williamson taking the top two floors of Cumberland House totalling 7,278 sqft represents one of the […]

  • The Longest Day Golf Challenge – Macmillan Cancer Support

    Well, we did it! The Fore Amigo’s tee’d off at 4.48am yesterday morning at Stoneham Golf Club and we sunk the final putts (and one chip) 4 rounds/72 holes later at 8.04pm. Photographic evidence attached! We just wanted to say a huge thank you to all of you that have sponsored us for this event. […]

  • Touch Rugby Tournament – LandAid

    Pleased as punch to have won the plate in the Touch Rugby tournament supporting LandAid with a bit of help from our friends!

  • Realest and LSH advise Kingsbridge Estates and Regus respectively to deliver full occupancy at Cumberland House, Southampton

    Advised by commercial property consultants Realest and JLL, Kingsbridge Estates has successfully let the remaining Grade A office space at Cumberland House, in the heart of Southampton’s premier business district. Cumberland House offers just over 30,000 sq ft of quality office space. 17,000 sq ft is to be occupied by Regus, the global workplace international […]

  • Automated External Defibrillators in Commercial Property – The Cost to Save a Life

    In an average year one in every thousand people will suffer a cardiac arrest. Without any CPR or defibrillation, the chances of arriving at hospital and consequently surviving are exceptionally small, typically less than 20%. Statistically this means that in an office building employing circa 1,100 people, one person a year would die from a […]

  • Realest and JLL secure one of largest office deals in Southampton this year

    Advised by property consultancies Realest and JLL, commercial law firm Bond Dickinson has let the third floor of its Commercial Road offices, Oceana House, to international accountancy firm Price Waterhouse Cooper on a short term basis while PWC’s Ocean Village existing building is comprehensively refurbished. The deal totals just under 10,000 sq ft, making it […]

  • Infographic: A breakdown of Realest services and how they interact with each other

  • Infographic – South Coast Commercial Property – Industrial & Office Markets

  • Realest Completes Another Investment Transaction

    Realest has completed the off market sale of Meridians House, Meridians Cross, Ocean Village, Southampton on behalf of Astoria Holdings to Charter Court Investments represented by Maughan Mitchell. The disposal of the offices, currently occupied by Commercial Surveying firm, Vail Williams and based in Ocean Village, relates to the sale of the 250 year long […]

  • Realest secure landmark instruction: The Director General’s House, Southampton

    South Coast surveying practice, Realest have been instructed alongside joint agents Lambert Smith Hampton to market The Director General’s House in Southampton. The iconic building which was given its name as the former residence of the Director General of the Ordnance Survey, is located at the head of London Road fronting The Avenue and Rockstone […]

  • Realest joins Lambert Smith Hampton to let prime business park office scheme, Fusion

    New surveying practice Realest are teaming up with joint agents Lambert Smith Hampton to market the remaining 25,000 sq ft grade A office space at the Fusion scheme on Solent Business Park. Fusion was acquired in 2014 by Clearbell Investments, and is home to a number of blue chip occupiers including Capita and Meridian (ITV). […]

  • Niche Commercial Surveying Practice, Realest making immediate impact in the South Coast market

    Having left BNP Paribas Real Estate at the end of last year, Robert Haynes, David Ferriman and Steven Williams along with founding partner Stuart Cook are making waves in the regional property market under their new Realest banner. Whilst Realest is a relatively new name in the commercial property world, the team has 75 years […]

  • Realest Acquires Prime Southampton Investment for Kingsbridge

    Kingsbridge Estates are delighted to have acquired the freehold interest in Cumberland House, a 31,000 sq ft prime office investment in Southampton. The property formed part of a larger portfolio sale out of Standard Life. However, Realest acting on behalf of Kingsbridge Estates secured a sub-sale of the Southampton property from Helical Bar, who acquired […]

  • Realest negotiates Southampton’s largest office letting of 2014

    Specialist property consultants Realest secured the city’s largest office letting of the year when they agreed terms on behalf of the University of Southampton. A new 15 year lease was secured on three floors of the city’s premier office building, One Guildhall Square. “We had been helping the University identify opportunities to move into the […]