Liverpool agent’s five-year unbeaten run continues

It is a five-year unbeaten run now for one Liverpool agent. CBRE has claimed the office crown in Liverpool for the fifth year in a row, despite falling short of its previous year’s totals in terms of both space disposed and deals volumes. CBRE was only 23,000 sq ft of disposals clear of Hitchcock Wright & Partners and Worthington Owen in second and third respectively, its smallest margin since 2013-14. Hitchcock Wright & Partners climbed to second in the league table, its highest placing for seven years, helped by acting on the largest office deal in Liverpool since 2014 (58,000 sq ft to LJMU at Exchange Station). CBRE was involved in the second largest letting of the year: more than 22,500 sq ft to Armstrong Solicitors at the Place in a joint deal with Matthews & Goodman. Total space disposed was up by more than 12%, helped by the number of larger deals done, with 25% more deals of more than 10,000 sq ft completed compared with the 2016 league table. Going up Hitchcock Wright & Partners have been climbing the table for the past couple of years. They’ve been helped to second place this time, by more than doubling the sq ft they transacted last year. Going down Keppie Massie slipped two places to fourth this year. It’s the first time they’ve been outside of the top three since 2013. 547,000 sq ft Total space disposed, up 12.4% on last year 3,056 sq ft Average deal size: down 21.4% on last year 43.2% Deal numbers up to 179 from 123 last year 58,000 sq ft: Largest letting was to Liverpool John Moore University at Exchange Station. Hitchcock Wright & Partners was disposing agent 93.2% Top 10 agents accounted for 93.2% of take-up, down from 93.6% last year