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Industrial catchments
Market report
The South Yorkshire industrial property market
An industrial market report for South Yorkshire, with the finance we arrange across 12 industrial catchments in the county.
£9.50/sq ft
Prime rent (Yorkshire)
7.08%
UK logistics vacancy
12,511
House sales, 12m (tracked towns)
Written by Matt Lenzie Founder & Principal Broker · 25 years arranging commercial property finance
South Yorkshire sits within the Yorkshire and the Humber industrial and logistics market. South Yorkshire is a largely urban county of four metropolitan boroughs, with the River Don flowing east through Sheffield, Rotherham and Doncaster. We arrange acquisition finance, commercial mortgages, bridging, development finance, mezzanine and term debt on industrial and logistics property across the county, tracking 12 industrial catchments, led by Doncaster, Sheffield, Barnsley, Dinnington and Hoyland.
The market figures below are reported nationally or at regional level by the industry's research sources, attributed to each source, and used as context rather than a South Yorkshire-specific measurement. The planning data and housing-transaction context is genuinely local and sourced from council planning registers and HM Land Registry.
Industrial locations and landlords across South Yorkshire
Industrial demand concentrates along the A630, A6195, M18 J1, M1 J36 and A61 corridors, where road access drives occupier demand for units and yards. Established industrial locations such as iPort Doncaster are the natural home for workshops, trade counters and multi-let units, and the first places a valuer looks for rental comparables. Multi-let landlords with estates across the county include Mileway, Indurent, BizSpace and Flexspace.
Rents, vacancy and yields
The UK industrial and logistics market saw 25.6m sq ft of big-box take-up in 2025 (CBRE, UK Logistics Q4 2025, 2025), with £10.5bn of investment (Knight Frank, UK Logistics Market Dashboard, 2025). Prime Yorkshire and the Humber rents run to £9.50/sq ft (CBRE, UK Logistics Q4 2025, Q4 2025), and prime equivalent yields sit around 5.5% (CBRE, UK Logistics Q4 2025, Q4 2025). Nationally, CBRE put logistics vacancy at 7.08% (CBRE, UK Logistics Q4 2025, Q4 2025), against forecast rental growth of 2.7% (Savills, Big Shed Prospects 2026, 2026 forecast).
Industrial demand signals in South Yorkshire
Development activity is visible locally: 4 recent industrial and logistics planning applications in the county's council registers, tracked through our planning data feed across more than 100 UK council portals. As a local-economy signal, the 4 South Yorkshire towns we track recorded 12,511 residential transactions in the last twelve months on HM Land Registry price paid data; housing-market context rather than industrial volume, but a read on the depth of the economy that fills small units.
Industrial and logistics finance in South Yorkshire
We arrange the full lifecycle of industrial and logistics finance across South Yorkshire: commercial mortgages for owner-occupiers and investors, acquisition finance for units, warehouses and estates, bridging for auctions and vacant property, development and mezzanine finance for builds and refurbishments, and term debt for the long-term hold. Send us the deal and we will come back within one working day.
Industrial and logistics market figures are published nationally or at Yorkshire and the Humber level (CBRE; Knight Frank; Savills; MSCI) and are presented as context for South Yorkshire rather than a county-specific measurement. Housing-transaction figures are HM Land Registry price paid data for the towns we track; planning references are from council planning registers.
By town
Industrial and logistics finance by town in South Yorkshire
Each town carries its own catchment profile, demand signals and market context.
Finance
The finance we arrange in South Yorkshire
Eight products across the whole industrial and logistics lifecycle.
Industrial and logistics commercial mortgages
We arrange commercial mortgages secured on industrial property across the UK, from a single unit or workshop to a multi-let estate, a trade counter or a let distribution warehouse.
Owner-occupier industrial mortgages
We arrange commercial mortgages for businesses buying the industrial unit, workshop, warehouse or trade premises they operate from.
Industrial and logistics acquisition finance
We arrange funding for the purchase of industrial and logistics investments across the UK, from single let units and multi-let estates to distribution warehouses and open storage yards.
Industrial bridging loans
We arrange fast, short-term bridging loans secured on industrial units, workshops, warehouses, estates and yards across the UK.
Industrial development and refurbishment finance
We arrange funding for ground-up industrial unit schemes, trade parks, logistics and distribution warehouses, and the refurbishment or extension of existing units across the UK.
Industrial and logistics refinance and equity release
We arrange refinancing for industrial units, estates and distribution warehouses: better terms at maturity, capital raised against rental income, and clean exits from bridging or development debt.
Industrial and logistics portfolio finance
We arrange facility-level funding secured across mixed industrial and logistics portfolios, replacing a patchwork of loans with one structure sized on the whole income.
Mezzanine, equity and JV funding
We arrange junior debt, preferred equity and joint venture capital that stretch the funding on industrial and logistics developments and acquisitions beyond what senior debt alone will reach.
Property types
Industrial property types we fund across South Yorkshire
Every format is underwritten differently. We know which lenders back each one.
Funding an industrial unit in South Yorkshire?
Send us the outline and we will come back with a view on fundability and likely terms.