Guides & knowledge

Office move and fit-out lead generation guides

Practical guides to finding companies preparing to move, refit or refurbish their offices — how lease events, planning applications, company growth and other public signals reveal office projects before they become competitive tenders.

From Signal, which tracks 155,131 London companies · figures update weekly · computed 8 August 2026

Find opportunities

How to find the companies, projects and decision-makers before your competitors do.

How to find companies before they move office The full process: which public sources reveal a coming move, how early each fires, and how to run it as a repeatable pipeline. Read → How to find office fit-out projects before they go to tender For contractors and D&B firms: the buying timeline, what is visible at RIBA 0–1, and how to reach occupiers before the shortlist forms. Read → Signs a company is about to move office The field guide: all 10 public-record signals, how early each shows, and where to find it. Read →

Understand the signals

What the categories, indicators and methods actually mean.

What is office-change intelligence? The canonical definition of the category — data, scoring, and how it differs from property data, contact data and tender alerts. Read → What is occupier intent data? Evidence that a company is preparing a property decision — the signal families, how they combine, and the GDPR position. Read → How Signal times London relocations Lease events, corroboration across independent registers, market-entry windows. Read → How refurbishments are predicted Displacement-grade planning, EPC/MEES pressure, renewal-plus-refit patterns. Read → Every data source Signal reads 9 statutory and public registers, named, with refresh cadence — plus the labelled commercial layer. Read →

Compare lead sources

Independent comparisons of move intelligence, property databases, contact tools and project feeds.

All comparisons The comparison hub — method, review dates and corrections contact. Read → Signal vs Cognism Cognism tells you who a company is and how to reach them. Signal tells you WHEN a London company is about to move or refit. Different question — often both. Read → Signal vs CoStar CoStar maps buildings, availability and comparables. Signal watches the OCCUPIERS — which London companies are about to move or refit, scored and timed for BD teams. Read → Signal vs Glenigan Glenigan tracks projects once planning exists. Signal reads occupier signals BEFORE the project forms — lease events, filings, growth — for London offices. Read → Signal vs CoStar — head to head Signal and CoStar are built for different jobs: CoStar for broad commercial-property research; Signal for a scored shortlist of London occupiers heading for a move or refit. Read →

London market data

Live, citable figures — refreshed weekly, archived monthly.

The London Office Movement Index The monthly barometer of London office demand, with a permanent archive. Read → London office statistics The citable stats sheet — headline figures, submarkets, sectors, lease windows, methodology. Read → The London map In-market companies by district — the interactive postcode view. Read → Movement by sector Which industries are moving, refitting and arriving. Read → The weekly briefing What changed in London office demand this week — archived. Read →

The guides teach the method. Signal runs it.

Everything above, read continuously across 771 in-market London companies, scored weekly, with the evidence and a decision-maker per lead.