Property consultant top of the league

MANCHESTER property consultant, Canning O’Neill has topped the Manchester Office Agents’ Forum’s (MOAF) annual league table for the second time in three years.

The take-up figures are for the amount of space let in 2015 across the city centre, Salford Quays, South Manchester and Old Trafford.  

Canning O’Neill let 584,000sq ft space over the 12-month period, a 48% increase on 2014 when the agency completed deals on 395,60sq ft space. The overall total market take up figure reached 1.322 million sq ft this year, which is a marginal decline on the previous year (2014: 1.332 million sq ft).

Canning O’Neill beat off stiff competition from CBRE (561,44 sq ft) and Edwards and Co (487,118 sq ft), which took second and third place respectively.

The agency was the second highest in terms of individual deals, completing 115 transactions, behind Edwards & Co. which completed 173 transactions in 2015.

 Canning O’Neill director Mark Canning said: “To have achieved almost a 50% increase on last year’s figures is a real coup for the company.

“There have been some major deals at Soapworks, Exchange Quay, Manchester Royal Exchange, Metro and Manchester Green over the last 12 months and projections for 2016 are looking every bit as positive.”