Refurbishment projects · London

Refurb projects announce themselves — in the public record.

Refurbishment has a paper trail like no other work: EPC ratings that force upgrades, planning and prior-approval filings, lease renewals where works are the price of staying. Signal reads all of it weekly and scores which London buildings and occupiers are heading into a refurb — while the budget is still being argued.

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771
London companies in market for a refit or refurbishment 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.

MEES deadlines are a slow-motion pipeline

Minimum energy standards keep ratcheting. Every poorly-rated office in London is a future refurbishment — with a legal deadline attached — but nobody maps ratings to occupiers systematically.

Stay-and-refit hides from project lists

A company that renews its lease and refits in place never appears on relocation radars or, often, planning portals. It’s the invisible half of the fit-out market.

Landlord vs tenant confusion

Who’s buying — the landlord upgrading to re-let, or the occupier refreshing to stay? Chasing the wrong side of a refurb wastes months.

Where the leads come from

Public record in, scored shortlist out.

01

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.

03

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

Cat A refurb, EPC/MEES upgrade, reposition, dilapidations, licence to alter, retrofit-first — each lead distinguishes occupier-led from landlord-led works.

FAQ

Questions, answered.

What signals point to an office refurbishment?+
The big four: a poor EPC rating on occupied stock (regulatory pressure), a planning or prior-approval filing on the building, a lease renewal window where works are typically negotiated, and ownership changes that precede repositioning. Signal scores refurbishment separately from relocation, so refurb-side firms can weight their list to it.
Do you track landlord-led refurbishments too?+
Yes — building-level signals (planning on the building, EPC, works filings) are tracked alongside occupier signals. A landlord repositioning a building is a project in itself AND a displacement event for every occupier inside — two lead types from one filing.
How does EPC data create refurb leads?+
Sub-standard ratings can’t be re-let without works, and tightening thresholds keep moving buildings into scope. Cross-referencing ratings with lease events tells you WHEN the forced upgrade becomes a live project — that’s the lead.
Is refurbishment scored differently from moves?+
Yes — separate refurb and relocation scores per company. Planning-on-own-building and EPC pressure push refurb; growth-plus-lease-event pushes relocation. Your dashboard can rank by either.
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