London office moves · Week 40, 2026 · 28 Sept – 4 October 2026
Every publicly reported office requirement, deal, move, major-works approval and large new lease in London, one week at a time — dated, sourced and free to cite. Sectors and buildings, not names.
Generated 1 October 2026 · rebuilt weekly · methodology · earlier weeks · cite
The short answer
In the week of 28 Sept – 4 October 2026, Signal logged 5 publicly reported office-change events by London occupiers — 1 new requirement, 2 deals or pre-lets and 2 completed moves, led by sport & entertainment and retail & trade, most of it in King's Cross and Wimbledon. 1 major-works planning approval landed at London office buildings in the same week. Across the last 8 weeks the tracker holds 77 events. Signal publishes the pattern here, not the names: the 256 London companies currently scored in market for a move are shown, named and timed, to customers.
This week’s largest reported events include a company is reported to be looking for 100,000–250,000 sq ft of office space in King's Cross (Green Street News); a company is reported to have taken 10,000–25,000 sq ft in London (BE News); a sport or entertainment organisation is reported to have taken 10,000–25,000 sq ft in Wimbledon (BE News).
Requirements · 1
Occupiers reported to be in the market for London office space — the earliest public signal of a move. Shown by sector and size, not by name.
A company is reported to be looking for 100,000–250,000 sq ft of office space in King's Cross.
requirement King's Cross 100,000–250,000 sq ft
Deals & pre-lets · 2
Lettings and pre-lets reported in the week. A pre-let is a lease signed before the building is finished.
A company is reported to have taken 10,000–25,000 sq ft in London.
deal 10,000–25,000 sq ft
A sport or entertainment organisation is reported to have taken 10,000–25,000 sq ft in Wimbledon.
deal Sport & entertainment Wimbledon 10,000–25,000 sq ft
Moves completed · 2
Occupiers reported to have opened, relocated or completed a fit-out of a London office.
A retail or consumer business is reported to have moved to The Whiteley, the West End.
move Retail & trade West End
A media company is reported to have moved to a new London office.
move Media & publishing
Major works approved · 1
Planning permissions decided in the week for refurbishment, redevelopment, extension or change of use at London office buildings. These disturb or displace every occupier in the building — a move trigger nobody files for themselves.
8 Effra Parade, SW2 1PS — change of use away from offices approved by Lambeth on 29 Sept
Conversion of existing front ground floor from office (Use Class E) to residential (Use Class C3), incorporating the existing rear ground-floor and upper floors flat to form a single dwelling house together with the removal of a front entrance.
Large new leases registered · 5
Multi-floor and whole-building office leases newly published in HM Land Registry’s monthly leases file. The register names the premises and term, not the tenant, and appears 4–8 weeks after signing.
No new register file was published this week; the most recent large office leases registered are shown.
| Building | Postcode | Demise | Term | Floor area | Lease dated | Published |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 116 Upper Street | N1 1QP | Basement & 1st | 25 yrs | not on register | 25 May | 14 Sept |
| The Rowe, 60 Whitechapel High Street | E1 7PE | 5th & 6th | 15 yrs | not on register | 1 Oct | 14 Sept |
| 11 New Square | WC2A 3QB | 2nd & 3rd | 10.3 yrs | not on register | 14 Jul | 14 Sept |
| 732 High Road Leytonstone | E11 3AJ | 1st & 2nd | 10 yrs | not on register | 14 Oct | 17 Aug |
| 80 Grosvenor Street | W1K 3JX | 4th & 5th | 10 yrs | not on register | 16 May | 17 Aug |
Archive
Each week is a permanent page. Counts are public events logged, not market totals.
| Week | Dates | Requirements | Deals | Moves | Works approved | Leases |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Week 40, 2026 · this page | 28 Sept – 4 Oct | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 |
| Week 39, 2026 | 21 Sept – 27 Sept | 0 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 0 |
| Week 38, 2026 | 14 Sept – 20 Sept | 0 | 2 | 2 | 7 | 3 |
| Week 37, 2026 | 7 Sept – 13 Sept | 1 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 |
| Week 36, 2026 | 31 Aug – 6 Sept | 1 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 0 |
| Week 35, 2026 | 24 Aug – 30 Aug | 0 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 |
| Week 34, 2026 | 17 Aug – 23 Aug | 0 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 |
| Week 33, 2026 | 10 Aug – 16 Aug | 1 | 1 | 3 | 8 | 0 |
Methodology
Occupier events. Press and agent-wire stories reporting an occupier requirement, deal, pre-let or completed move in London, each linked to its publisher. Signal does not print company names: each event is described by sector (from its Companies House SIC code where Signal tracks the company, otherwise as the story describes it), size band, submarket and, where the event is about a building, the building. Stories sourced from CoStar are excluded for licensing reasons. One entry per company and event; other outlets reporting the same event are linked as "also reported by".
Major works approved. Planning approvals decided in the week, from the GLA Planning London Datahub and borough registers, where the description is major works (refurbishment, redevelopment, extension or change of use) at an office building, or the application's structured floorspace carries at least 500 sq m of office floorspace. Tree works, advertisement consents, conditions, amendments and householder applications are excluded. No applicant names are shown.
Large new leases. Office leases newly published in HM Land Registry's monthly Registered Leases file, keyed to the week the register published them (the register appears 4–8 weeks after signing and can back-date further). The register carries no floor area or lessee: size is the VOA rating-list area of the hereditament on the demised floors where one matches (≥ 10,000 sq ft shown as measured), otherwise a demise spanning two or more floors or a whole building on a term of 10 years or more.
Caps and weeks. Per week: 40 items per press group, 25 approvals, 25 leases. Weeks are ISO weeks (Monday–Sunday, UTC).
Privacy. No company names appear on this surface: occupier events are anonymised to sector, size band and place; planning and register rows carry building and reference only. Nothing is derived from customer CRMs or private data; every item links to its public source.
Citing. Free to cite with attribution: "Source: Signal (officemovesignals.com/london-office-moves)". The underlying JSON is freely downloadable. For the counts behind the market — how many London companies are in market, by submarket and sector — see the Movement Index and London office statistics; for who has a lease ending, the lease-expiry dataset.
Questions
Behind each sector and building on this page is a named company with a scored, timed reason to move — 256 of them in London right now. If your business wins work when companies change office, see them.
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