Office move intelligence · London

A move leaves a paper trail before it leaves a press release.

Companies decide to move quietly, but the decision touches public registers at every step: the lease that started the clock, the accounts that disclose commitments winding down, the hiring that outgrows the floor plate, the leadership change that triggers the rethink. Signal reads those registers weekly, corroborates them against each other, and ranks every London company by when it will go to market — not just whether.

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771
London companies in market for an office change right now
40
scoring 80+ — moving imminently
382
lease expiries & breaks inside 18 months
155,131
London companies tracked
Live figures from Signal’s London office statistics · figures update weekly · computed 8 August 2026
Why pipelines run late

By the time it’s public, it’s priced.

A lease expiry alone often means renewal

The industry sells lease-event lists, but an expiry with nothing around it is as likely a renewal as a move. Signal weighs the corroborating signals — leadership change, sustained hiring, space pressure, filings — that separate the renewers from the movers.

Companies enter the market before the event

Occupiers start searching roughly nine months to a year and a half before a lease event, scaled by their size. Signal ranks by market-entry timing, not raw expiry dates — the difference between calling during the search and calling after the signing.

Address strings lie; buildings don’t

Most databases match companies to addresses by string similarity — and London addresses are ambiguous. Signal resolves companies to actual buildings via UPRN and TOID (Ordnance Survey’s unique property identifiers), so a lease event, a planning consent and a rates record at the same building genuinely connect.

Where the leads come from

Public record in, scored shortlist out.

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Spot

HM Land Registry lease events, Companies House filings, local-authority planning, hiring and growth — read continuously across 155,131 London companies.

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Score

Every company is ranked 0–100 by how strong, recent and combined its signals are. 60+ is in market; 80+ is imminent. Scores re-run weekly.

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Act

Your dashboard opens on your patch: ranked companies, the why-now in one line, timing window, and a decision-maker to call.

We speak your language

Lease expiry, break clause, stay-vs-go, market entry, occupier rep, corroboration — every lead states its window and cites the register entries behind it.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

Where does Signal’s office-move intelligence come from?+
Nine statutory and public registers — HM Land Registry (CCOD and registered leases), Companies House (filings, officers, accounts), the VOA rating list, London borough business-rates data, the Planning London Datahub and borough portals, the EPC register, The Gazette and Ordnance Survey (UPRN/TOID) — plus hiring data, press and company websites for corroboration. Contact details come from compliant B2B providers. Full list with refresh cadence on the data sources page.
Why does corroboration matter?+
Because single signals mislead. A press report of a move is treated as a claim until an independent register backs it; a lease expiry is a clock, not an intention. Signal only expresses confidence when independent sources agree — and every scored claim shows the evidence it rests on, so a caller can defend it in conversation.
Does Signal take a percentage of project value?+
No. Signal is a flat monthly fee. Some lead services charge a percentage of project turnover — Signal never will. You do the work; you keep the reward.
Does the scoring improve over time?+
Yes — outcomes feed back in. When a customer records that a company moved, renewed or was never a fit, those outcomes recalibrate the model’s weights (each customer’s data stays private to them, always). The list a customer sees is sharper each month than the month before.
How far ahead of a move can a company be identified?+
Typically 6–18 months before completion — the window in which designers, agents and contractors are appointed. Confirmed market requirements (press-verified) surface companies actively searching now; lease-anchored windows surface next quarter’s conversations before anyone else is having them.
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