Industrial and logistics finance in the Greater London

Created in 1965 and made up of 32 boroughs plus the City of London, Greater London is England's most populous ceremonial county with around 9.1 million residents. We arrange the full range of industrial and logistics finance across the Greater London, from the commercial mortgages that buy and hold a unit, a warehouse or an estate to the bridging, development, mezzanine and equity behind a refurbishment, a distribution scheme or a yard. Industrial and logistics market data is published nationally and regionally by CBRE, Knight Frank, Savills, Colliers and MSCI, so the figures above are presented as clearly-labelled benchmarks, with the regional figures attributed to their sources, while the planning and housing-transaction data is genuinely local for the towns we track.

Structural land constraints and very limited speculative supply underpin the strongest near-term rental-growth forecast of any region, and investor appetite for last-mile multi-let assets continues to strengthen.

Nationally, forecast logistics rental growth runs at 2.7% (Savills, Big Shed Prospects 2026, 2026 forecast), against UK logistics vacancy of 7.08% (CBRE, UK Logistics Q4 2025, Q4 2025) and a prime distribution yield of 5% (Knight Frank, UK Logistics Market Dashboard, Jan 2026). That supply and demand picture is the backdrop to every regional appraisal we run.

Development activity is visible across the region: we track 24 recent industrial planning applications in the Greater London through council planning registers, part of a national feed covering more than 100 local authorities.

Benchmark figures from Newmark (Gerald Eve), UK Prime Logistics; Knight Frank, UK Logistics Market Dashboard; CBRE, UK Logistics Q4 2025. Regional commentary draws on Knight Frank (UK Logistics Market Dashboard, Jan 2026); Newmark (Gerald Eve) (UK Prime Logistics, Q4 2024); Colliers (Industrial and Logistics Rents Maps H2 2025, Jun 2025).