Welcome. CoStar Group is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Agency Awards!

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1 CoStar Agency Awards 2015

2 Welcome to the 2015 CoStar Agency Awards CoStar Group is pleased to announce the winners of the 2015 Agency Awards! Welcome to the 2015 CoStar agency awards. We are proud to recognise the successes of the commercial property agency community, and in particular those firms and individuals that have been at the forefront of driving volume during the year. Over 8,300 agents have been battling for their place at the top of the league tables. Once again we have used CoStar data to identify the agents that have won each of the categories, while the popular editor s choice awards have generated widespread interest and participation from the readership of CoStar News, which continues to be the UK s most widely read commercial property news service. After the significant volume increase of 2014, it is perhaps not surprising that we have seen volumes flatten off a bit in Occupancy is running at very high levels across the country, and with relatively few deliveries of new stock in many areas, transaction options are tightening. It will be interesting to see what the effect of slowing absorption will have on activity in the coming year. CoStar data is more comprehensive than ever thanks to the continued support of over 97% of agents working in every town and city in the UK. We are grateful to everyone that contributes to the leading shared information resource for the property industry with well over a thousand UK businesses now using CoStar Suite to access this information and provide professional advice and decision support to their clients. Many congratulations to all this year s winners and runners up. We are proud to be associated with this industry and the services we deliver to its professionals which increase efficiency and income across the sector. Yours Sincerely, Giles Newman Managing Director CoStar Europe 1

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4 Birmingham Office involve relocating some 1,000 jobs currently based in London to Birmingham from mid-2017 onwards. Paul Norman Editor, CoStar News A combination of historically low supply and strong demand has made Birmingham a particularly attractive stomping ground for investor/developers, with a number of major schemes changing hands and being worked up. Elsewhere, HS2 and BDO completed deals in December 2014 for 97,960 SF and 24,225 SF respectively at M&G s Two Snowhill scheme. In another significant deal, Jacobs Engineering took 19,285 SF of offices at Nurton s 2 Colmore Square, to become the first engineering group to relocate to be close to HS2. There has also been a spate of exciting requirements launched, including requirements for Deutsche Bank, Jaguar Land Rover and Network Rail. The occupier story has continued to back this confidence with a string of major deals notably large-scale inward investment moves completing in the period. The largest deal was HSBC s announcement that it will take 212,000 SF at the Arena Central scheme as a new UK HQ for its ring-fenced retail banking division. The bank has acquired the long leasehold interest from Birmingham City Council in a move that will 2 Colmore Square Editor s Choice Awards Deal of the year was unsurprisingly HSBC s forward-purchase for its own occupation of Miller Developments and Pro Vinci Asset Management s 212,000 SF Arena Central. The bank acquired the long leasehold interest from Birmingham City Council, signing a 250-year lease. 2 Snowhill Dealmaker of the year for the third year running was key mover and shaker in the Birmingham office market John Griffiths of GBR Phoenix Beard, but this year he received the same number of votes as his colleague Ben Thacker, who shares the award. 4

5 Eyes on the market Birmingham Office: Supply, Demand and Vacancy Supply/Demand (000s SF) Vacancy Rate (%) Q2 08 Q2 09 Q2 10 Q2 11 Q2 12 Q2 13 Q2 14 Q2 15 Change in Demand (LHS) Change in Supply (LHS) Vacancy Rate (RHS) 20% 18% 16% 14% 12% 10% 8% 6% 4% 2% 0% *Data collected by CoStar from 1st July 2014 to 30th June Largest deals of the year* Address Size sq ft Occupier Landlord/Seller Agent Tenant/Buyer Agent Month 1 2 Arena Central 212,000 HSBC Holdings GBR Phoenix Beard, CBRE Apr-15 Bilfinger GVA, CBRE 2 Two Snowhill 97,958 High Speed Two (HS2) GBR Phoenix Beard, CBRE GM Real Estate Dec-14 3 Regent Court and 70,998 UHB NHS Foundation JLL, GBR Phoenix Beard, Bilfinger GVA Nov-14 Yardley Court Trust KWB 4 6 Eastside Locks 46,000 Birmingham City University Bilfinger GVA, Bilfinger GVA Jun-15 Academies Trust Cushman & Wakefield Edmund Street 37,384 HSBC Holdings GBR Phoenix Beard, CBRE Oct-14 Bilfinger GVA 6 54 Hagley Rd 34,395 Extra Energy Supply JLL, Bilfinger GVA, Undisclosed Apr-15 GBR Phoenix Beard 7 Four Brindleyplace 30,750 Mercer Consulting Colliers International DTZ Apr-15 8 Two Snowhill 24,223 BDO DTZ GBR Phoenix Dec-14 Beard 9 Colmore Plaza 22,924 Vodafone Group Cushman & Wakefield, Colliers Sep-14 Bilfinger GVA International 10 1 Colmore Square 22,500 Shakespeare Martineau DTZ, KWB Undisclosed Jun-15 5

6 Birmingham Office Winners Office 2015 (July June 2015) Top Agents by Availability sq ft 1 GBR Phoenix Beard 1,555,094 2 CBRE 1,195,214 3 JLL 868,820 4 Bilfinger GVA 702,458 5 DTZ 631,681 6 Knight Frank 330,233 7 Cushman & Wakefield 304,978 8 Savills 278,728 9 KWB Property Management 218, Mason Young Property Consultants 195,031 Top Agents by No. Instructions 1 GBR Phoenix Beard 66 2 Mason Young Property Consultants 50 3 JLL 40 4 CBRE 32 5= DTZ 27 5= Siddall Jones 27 7 KWB Property Management 24 8 Bilfinger GVA 21 9 Knight Frank Cushman & Wakefield 14 Top Agents by Acquisitions sq ft 1 CBRE 254,572 2 Bilfinger GVA 155,249 3 DTZ 109,138 4 GM Real Estate 97,958 5 Colliers International 46,326 6 GBR Phoenix Beard 24,223 7 Knight Frank 23,801 8 Lambert Smith Hampton 21,568 9 Gerald Eve 20, Vail Williams 19,284 Top Agents by Disposals sq ft 1 GBR Phoenix Beard 697,087 2 Bilfinger GVA 472,832 3 CBRE 447,706 4 JLL 254,806 5 DTZ 165,116 6 KWB Property Management 149,782 7 Colliers International 118,683 8 Cushman & Wakefield 97,595 9 Savills 53, Knight Frank 41,626 *Data collected by CoStar from 1st July 2014 to 30th June Top Agents by No. of Disposals 1 GBR Phoenix Beard 69 2 JLL 46 3 KWB Property Management 33 4 CBRE 30 5 DTZ 29 6 Bilfinger GVA 22 7 Mason Young Property Consultants 18 8 Knight Frank 13 9 Colliers International Siddall Jones 11 Research Contact Andy Laura Butcher Roberts Market Research Manager Central West Midlands T: E: abutcher@costar.co.uk lroberts@costar.co.uk 6

7 Editor s Choice Winners 2015 Dealmaker of the year Name John Griffiths & Ben Thacker Company GBR Phoenix Beard Deal of the year Name of building 2 Arena Central Submarket Brindleyplace Deal completion date 02/04/2015 Size (sq ft) 212,000 Seller Agent(s) Bilfinger GVA, CBRE, GBR Phoenix Beard Buyer Agent(s) CBRE Price Undisclosed Occupier HSBC Birmingham Office: The year in figures *Data collected by CoStar from 1st July 2014 to 30th June transactions completed 2 Arena Central Best Newcomer - Midlands Company Philippa Pickavance Real Estate FOLLOW US FOR THE LATEST AGENCY AWARDS #CoStarAwards CoStar Group UK CoStar Group UK ft 3,573,080 sq ft space available Occupancy Rate 87.0% as at Q Agents contributed data to CoStar 7