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International Partner • United Kingdom

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Alex Charlesworth

International Partner • United Kingdom


About

Alex is Head of UK National Building Consultancy and is responsible for all commercial building surveying services. He is recognised by peers and the industry as a specialist dilapidations practitioner, with a comprehensive understanding of the legal issues and has extensive experience representing both landlords and tenants.

He provides construction and building related advice across a wide range of property, to owners, occupiers and investors.  He deals with due diligence and acquisition surveys, reinstatement cost assessments, maintenance and refurbishment, and advises on exit strategy. Alex also has wide experience in Purchaser's and Investor's surveys, both individual properties and large scale portfolios across EMEA. He also undertakes building pathology analysis on many types of commercial and historic buildings.

Alex is also responsible for consultancy services across Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA), in particular relating to cross border due diligence and dilapidations.

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Cushman & Wakefield Appointed As Valuer Of SEGRO’s UK Portfolio

Cushman & Wakefield has been appointed by SEGRO, the UK’s largest Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), as valuer of its UK portfolio of modern warehousing, industrial property, data centres, and development land assets.

Richard Coleman • 08/05/2026

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Cushman & Wakefield Appoints Senior Leaders To Drive Insight-Driven Solutions Across APAC & EMEA Markets

Richard Pickering and Alvin So join the APAC & EMEA Multi-Markets team.

Lauren Joselyn • 17/12/2025

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Grade A London Office Space Facing Considerable Squeeze Beyond 2025

New quarterly London office data from Cushman & Wakefield highlights the constrained conditions faced by occupiers seeking Grade A space in London and points to further challenges to come, with just 5.91 million sq ft of total office space currently under construction and available beyond 2025.

Lauren Joselyn • 06/05/2025

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Cushman & Wakefield Appoints Rod Edwards As Partner In Rating Team

Based in London, Edwards will play a pivotal role in supporting the firm's existing clients, developing the team, and focusing on new business opportunities.

Lauren Joselyn • 01/04/2025

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Cushman & Wakefield Appoints Patrick Hogan As Head Of EMEA Living Capital Markets

Real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has appointed Patrick Hogan as Head of EMEA Living Capital Markets.

Richard Coleman • 06/03/2025

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Iversen Building Reaches Full Occupancy At The Oxford Science Park

The Iversen Building, a new purpose-built ‘lab ready’ 86,000 sq ft building based at The Oxford Science Park (TOSP), has reached 100% occupancy only twelve months after practical completion.

Vikki McCrindle • 28/02/2025

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Stane Retail Park In Colchester Sells For £33.95M

In the first major retail park acquisition of 2025, a private South African investor client of Pembrey Asset Management has acquired Stane Retail Park, Colchester, from developer The Churchmanor Estates Company plc, for £33.95 million.

Richard Coleman • 17/02/2025

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Central London Office Market Defies Economic Challenges With Robust Leasing And A Positive 2025 Forecast

The Central London office leasing market demonstrated remarkable resilience in 2024, achieving an overall take-up of 9.68 million sq ft, a 1% increase on 2023 and the second highest volume in the past five years, according to Cushman & Wakefield's latest ‘Central London Offices Marketbeat’ report.

Lauren Joselyn • 06/02/2025

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Powerhouse Markets Lead EMEA Data Centre Growth As New Markets Emerge To Reshape Landscape

A total of 21GW of data centre capacity across EMEA was operational, under construction, or in planning stages at the end of 2024 with operators increasingly looking beyond traditional powerhouse markets to meet demand, according to Cushman & Wakefield.

Richard Coleman • 05/02/2025

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European Commercial Real Estate Markets Experience Significant Yield Compression In Q4

New data from Cushman & Wakefield reveals that a growing number of European commercial real estate markets saw prime yields move inwards in Q4 2024, with 24 market sectors reporting an inward shift in Q4 2024, double the number in Q3, providing a clearer signal that Europe’s investment markets are on the road to recovery at the prime end of the market.  

Richard Coleman • 04/02/2025

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Cushman & Wakefield Completes Acquisition Of Its Affiliate In Finland

Global real estate services firm Cushman & Wakefield has completed the acquisition of its affiliate in Finland, having announced in November that it had entered a definitive agreement to acquire the firm.

 

Richard Coleman • 17/01/2025

Services

Project & Development Services
Aligning with client culture and goals to shape the built environment together
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Building Consultancy

With extensive commercial expertise and a deep understanding of the property life-cycle requirements of investors, occupiers, lenders and developers, our building consultancy team provides specialist advice across the full spectrum of building surveying services.

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Building Engineering Services

Our Building Engineering Services team can provide all design and management services relating to the mechanical, electrical and public health elements within all building types, across all sectors during initial construction, fit-out and occupancy stages.

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Article • Sustainability / ESG

Circular economy in retrofit works

The circular economy in retrofit works is one of the most effective strategies to make civil construction more sustainable.
Diego Batista • 15/07/2026
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Insights • Economy

Artificial Intelligence and the Next Chapter for Australian Commercial Real Estate

Cushman & Wakefield has developed four possible scenarios of how AI may diffuse across the Australian economy over the next decade and modelled the implications of each of these on commercial real estate markets.

Sean Ellison • 15/07/2026
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Research

REdefining the Industrial Workplace: From Cost Center to Performance Driver

This report argues that workplace experience in factories, manufacturing plants and logistics facilities is now an operational imperative, directly linked to safety, productivity and retention.
Kim Yong • 14/07/2026
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Research • Investment / Capital Markets

As Treasury Volatility Returns, CRE Lenders Aren’t Backing Down

Rising Treasury volatility is testing CRE markets, but resilient lending and floating-rate debt are helping sustain deal activity.​
Adrian Ponsen • 14/07/2026
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Research

DNA of Real Estate

Track prime rents and yields in up to 43 cities across Europe, covering the key office, high street and logistics sectors.
Nigel Almond • 13/07/2026
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Insights

Clever Spaces: Shaped by People. Built for Talent.

Clever Spaces starts from a question that goes beyond real estate: what do people actually need to do their best work?
Raffaella Pinto • 06/07/2026
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Article • Workplace

AI is reshaping offices

AI adoption does not automatically reduce office demand. Instead, it is redefining the value of the workplace, accelerating selective relocations, and leaving behind buildings that lack the flexibility to meet evolving occupier needs.
Rafael Nolazco • 03/06/2026
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Article • Workplace

Office market opportunities: why now is the right time to relocate

Buenos Aires' Class A office market is far from standing still. It has entered a more mature, more strategic phase—one in which the best opportunities no longer present themselves. They have to be identified and pursued.
Mercedes Pagliettini • 20/05/2026
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Article • Valuation

Valuation in Agriculture in the Age of Data

The Brazilian agribusiness sector is undergoing a phase of structural maturation. Squeezed margins, increased competition, consolidation among major players, and more sophisticated credit sources are transforming the way rural assets are perceived by the market.
Rogerio Cerreti • 23/03/2026

UK INSIGHTS

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Research

DNA of Real Estate

Track prime rents and yields in up to 43 cities across Europe, covering the key office, high street and logistics sectors.
Nigel Almond • 13/07/2026
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Research

H2 2025 EMEA Data Centre Market Update

Strong AI, cloud, and sovereign digital demand continues to expand EMEA data centre capacity, while power availability, grid access, and regulatory constraints increasingly determine where new development occurs. 
Matyas Fazekas • 17/02/2026
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MarketBeat

UK MarketBeats

Our Marketbeat reports provide quarterly commercial real estate market activity data covering supply, demand, and pricing trends. Explore our UK Marketbeat reports which cover office, life sciences, retail, industrial, investment, and specialist market sectors.
Edward Bavister • 28/07/2025
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Insights

Unlocking New Opportunities: The Removal Of PDR Restrictions For Commercial-To-Residential Conversions

In a significant policy shift, Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, announced on 13 February, proposals to change Class MA Permitted Development Rights (PDR) so that current floorspace and vacancy requirements will be removed, allowing  commercial buildings of any size the freedom to be converted into new homes. 
Fred Clifford • 05/03/2024
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Article • Sustainability / ESG

Sustainable Dilapidations – Shifting Trends in The Green Agenda

The real estate industry is slowly shifting more towards retaining and repairing as opposed to demolishing and replacing. Whilst financial pressures continue to drive dilapidations, the real estate industry is on the journey to ensure sustainability is at the forefront of dilapidations.
Alex Charlesworth • 26/02/2024
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Research • Sustainability / ESG

Unlocking Sustainable Success: The Rise of ESG Benchmarks in Real Estate

With benchmarks becoming increasingly prominent, it’s essential to understand what exactly they are and why they’re becoming an integral part of the decision-making process for organisations.
Emily Oldfield • 08/12/2023
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Research

Mind the gap: the difference between IPMS and NIA rental values

While use of IPMS has increased over its ten-year existence, it has certainly not superseded the more traditional NIA measurement used for most office buildings when calculating rental values per sq ft.
Kiran Patel • 15/11/2023
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Insights

The EMEA Investor Update

A regular update on the commercial real estate investment scene in Europe.
James Young • 27/10/2022
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Research • Workplace

European Commercial Real Estate Versus Inflation: A Close Look at Past Performance

This part of our inflation series focuses on CRE across countries in Europe. Our report, Perspectives on European Inflation, explores causes of the current bout of inflation and how it differs by region.
Rebecca Rockey • 05/07/2022
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Insights • Economy

UK Real Estate Market View

A regular update on the commercial real estate market in the UK.
31/05/2022
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Article

Commercial Property

Dedicated to delivering effective services in the EMEA region. 

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Exemplar service line collaboration to deliver a new workplace for our Midlands team.
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Battersea Power Station is an iconic 42-acre development on the south of the River Thames.
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Hines • Retail
Developing a forward-looking strategy for one of Birmingham’s prime assets.
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JP Boden & Co • Retail
Fashion retailer JP Boden & Co wanted to expand its London head office to accommodate business growth and more agile working.
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ArchCo Portfolio Valuation • Industrial & Retail
Valuation of an extensive portfolio encompassing 18 million square feet, consisting of 5,285 rental spaces distributed across the UK, with approximately 80% located in London.
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Valuations for Multi-Let Industrial Assets • Industrial
Secured Lending services provided for 5.9 million square feet across 59 assets in the UK.
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Omnicom Europe Limited • Technology

Omnicom Europe Limited had to relocate from over ten properties into one over 4 years.

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