Download our latest Market Report – July 2026

We are pleased to announce our bi-annual market report focussing on the North West industrial and logistics market

  • Approximately £463M of North West industrial investments were transacted in H1 2026 – a 13% decrease on the £532M transacted in H1 2025.
  • Despite an optimistic start to the year, investors became increasingly cautious as the year progressed, particularly in the wake of the potential economic impacts of the US/Iran conflict.
  • Value add opportunities continued to dominate investor demand, with core / dry requirements limited.
  • There remains a lack of distress amongst vendors, creating a divergence between purchaser and seller pricing expectations.
  • Speculative funding opportunities remained challenging, albeit the yield spread against existing stock is starting to look attractive to some investors (c.150 – 200 bps).
  • H1 2026 big box take-up totalled 1.32M sq ft across 7 transactions, down from 1.56M sq ft (12 transactions) in H1 2025. Of the 7 big box transactions, B8RE advised on 5.
  • Big box supply stood at approximately 6.54M sq ft, broadly stable against the 6.55M sq ft recorded at the end of 2025.
  • Only 1.20M sq ft of big box space being built out across the region (7 schemes), with no speculative units over 300K sq ft currently under construction.
  • New build MLI take-up had a strong start to 2026, with H1 volumes reaching 506K sq ft (23 transactions), over three times the 158K sq ft recorded in H1 2025.
  • Record headline new build rents continued to be achieved, with £18.00 per sq ft reached at both Ashbrook Approach, Heald Green (3,871 sq ft) and Bridgewater Point, Trafford Park (5,394 sq ft).

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