Lettings at refurbished City Tower top £1.4m

Lettings at City Tower in central Manchester have topped £1.4m.

Schroder Real Estate Investment Management has secured a further 47,500sq ft of new office lettings following its refurbishment of the vertical business district.

The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (“NICE”) has signed a new 10-year lease extension with a seven-year break on 46,350sq ft of space at podium level.

The rent of £973,350, or £21 per sq ft, reflects an uplift of 15% on the previous rent paid.

Schroders has also agreed a new 10-year lease with Charterfields chartered surveyors for 1,247sq ft on the 22nd floor.

The new letting doubles Charterfields’ occupation within City Tower and reflects a rent of £25 per sq ft.

Schroders recently completed a major refurbishment of City Tower to provide 36,400sq ft of high quality office space, across four floors of 9,100 sq ft, as well as repositioning of the ground floor reception and lift lobbies throughout the building to support the 3,000 people who work there.

In February, Schroders announced it had secured new lettings and regears with more than five tenants, including an 18,000sq ft regear to Hays and a new 9,000sq ft lease with iHub.

City Tower is owned in a joint venture held between Schroder Real Estate Investment Trust, the actively managed UK REIT, Schroder UK Real Estate Fund and Immobilien Europa Direkt.

Tom Newman, investment nanager at Schroder Real Estate, said: “Securing these new long-term lettings at City Tower further validates our strategy to reposition the asset and take advantage of the city centres rental growth, delivering strong returns for our investors.

“It also provides a good example of our winning cities approach, as the attributes of diversification, modern infrastructure and quality of life means the asset is well positioned to out-perform in the coming years, as both a beneficiary of a more independent UK and in a period when new commercial development is likely to be fairly modest.

“We continue to see strong occupier demand from a diverse range of tenants for the good quality commercial space that we have created, as well as ongoing interest in the recently refurbished spaces.

“Our strategy for the asset remains focused on more lettings, whilst further enhancing the retail offer and where possible, investment into the wider realm for the benefit of City Tower and the surrounding environment.”

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