A guide to UK business parks in association with Investment Property Databank Ltd.
A guide to UK business parks in association with Investment Property Databank Ltd.
From its first publication in 1993, the Strutt & Parker / IPD Business Park Index has tracked one of the most dynamic segments of the UK property investment market.
The Index shows the returns to investors delivered by parks that are world class in scale and offer quality of environment and quality of communications. These are the modern business locations that have made areas like the Thames Valley in the UK a European destination of choice for internationally mobile firms, and helped to put those regions at the top end of the European growth league.
The Index draws on IPD's uniquely detailed and comprehensive records of UK investment properties. At the end of 2009, those records covered 184 buildings on 51 separate parks that meet the criteria set for inclusion in the Index.
The Index compares results for the S&P Parks with two wider office benchmarks. The first set of comparables, IPD All Parks, covers a broader range of 317 out-of-town business park units. Though many may be branded as business or office parks, almost half of them do not meet the scale or quality standards set for the S&P Business Parks. Secondly, S&P Parks are set against IPD Urban Offices: 1,490 buildings that represent the conventional town centre office stock. This sample excludes Central London, which is driven by its own unique global position and occupier base.
Download the Business Parks Index 2010.