Office starts in regions nosedived last year, crane survey finds

By Hamish Champ2020-02-04T06:00:00

Latest Deloitte report says Belfast was only city to see improvement on number of schemes coming out of the ground

Construction of new office space fell substantially last year in three of the four cities covered by Deloitte’s latest regional crane survey.

The annual survey said that the 4.3 million ft² of office space being built across Belfast, Birmingham, Leeds and Manchester in 2019 was 12% lower than in 2018. Belfast was the only city covered by the survey to show an increase. The volume of office space being developed rose 37% between 2018 and 2019, improving the overall picture.

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