The West Sussex industrial property market

West Sussex sits within the South East industrial and logistics market. West Sussex has a population of around 915,000, with Crawley home to Gatwick, the second-busiest airport in the UK, and Chichester serving as the county town. We arrange acquisition finance, commercial mortgages, bridging, development finance, mezzanine and term debt on industrial and logistics property across the county, tracking 9 industrial catchments, led by Crawley, Haywards Heath, Horsham and Worthing.

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 West Sussex-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 West Sussex

Industrial demand concentrates along the A259, A23, A27, A264 and A24 corridors, where road access drives occupier demand for units and yards. Multi-let landlords with estates across the county include Indurent, Flexspace and Mileway.

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 South East rents run to £27.50/sq ft (CBRE, UK Logistics Q4 2025, Q4 2025), and prime equivalent yields sit around 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 West Sussex

Development activity is visible locally: 8 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.

Industrial and logistics finance in West Sussex

We arrange the full lifecycle of industrial and logistics finance across West Sussex: 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 South East level (CBRE; Knight Frank; Savills; MSCI) and are presented as context for West Sussex 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.