Industrial and logistics finance in the Yorkshire and the Humber

Home to around 5.5 million people, Yorkshire and the Humber stretches from the Pennines across the Yorkshire Dales and North York Moors to the Humber Estuary. We arrange the full range of industrial and logistics finance across the Yorkshire and the Humber, 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.

Strong occupier demand against constrained Grade A supply kept vacancy near 5.3% at the end of 2025, with the M62 and Humber ports underpinning a resilient outlook.

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 22 recent industrial planning applications in the Yorkshire and the Humber through council planning registers, part of a national feed covering more than 100 local authorities.

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