Rise at Seven signs for Manchester HQ

As many of the UK’s property professionals prepare to head to UKREiiF, there promises to be plenty of scope for robust conversations about what really matters when it comes to strategically reimagining office space to underpin business objectives, writes Dan Pilling of TSK.

Hillcrest PERE is due to welcome the software developer to the building this summer.

Rutherford House is to be knocked down and replaced with a 93,000 sq ft campus for the construction equipment provider, under plans lodged by Jersey-based landlord Cantt Pak.

Having finalised its demerger from parent company TalkTalk in February, the commercially-focused comms firm will relocate from the nearby Soapworks to around 10,500 sq ft in May.

The developer leading the creation of Manchester’s Victoria North is moving into 5,000 sq ft at Bruntwood SciTech’s Pall Mall, joining Sheppard Robson and Gunnercooke on the recently refurbished building’s roster.

Liverpool Charity and Voluntary Services is selling 151 Dale Street, which offers the potential for vacant possession in the short term.

Work has started on the conversion of 25,000 sq ft at Manchester’s The Hive, after the flex operator signed with landlord Grosvenor.

Some 286,000 sq ft of office space was transacted in the city across 51 deals in the first three months of 2026, according to the Manchester Office Agents Forum.

Teed up by a council land sale in January, consent for the last plot at Chamberhall Business Park will allow the firm to build a 49,000 sq ft HQ and 25,000 sq ft across five industrial units.

Offers of £5.25m are being sought for Clayton House, whose lower floors are let to Subway and popular Indian restaurant Bundobust.

The housebuilder has signed a new lease for 8,700 sq ft at the park’s Building 103 on Dalton Avenue.

Work to update areas of the draft Central Lancashire Local Plan highlighted by planning inspectors as potentially unsound will be carried out by mid-June, the constituent councils – Preston, Chorley and South Ribble – have said.

After 27 years in Preston Brook, the architecture practice is moving its Cheshire studio to Vanguard House at the Halton science and innovation campus.

The digital insurance provider has opened an 11,000 sq ft office, twice the size of its previous space at The Royals.

It has been more than three years since the Manchester office project secured planning permission. Now, developer Federated Hermes MEPC has appointed CBRE and JLL joint letting agents as it appears to be bringing the project forward at last.

In the largest office deal in Salford since the pandemic, Bankfoot APAM has signed the global audio branding agency to a 15-year lease at the former Colgate Palmolive factory.

The rural economy-focused lender has agreed terms on a 10-year lease with landlord Watkin Property Ventures at the Gorse Stacks office complex.

The Swedish on-road load handling equipment company will relocate its UK headquarters from Shropshire to Wrexham Industrial Estate, following a county council vote to approve the development.

Agent Fisher German has been tasked with selling the boutique office and retail space close to Manchester Cathedral, with an asking price of £1.1m.