Industrial and Warehouse Rents per Sq Ft — London and the South East

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Industrial and warehouse rents per sq ft

Quoting rents for industrial and warehouse space, as at 1 November 2026. Essentially all available stock of this type sits outside London, which is itself the finding: a London industrial requirement is a sourcing problem before it is a pricing problem.

Recalculated 1 November 2026 from live instructions.

0 instructions were excluded as mis-tagged.

Read this before the table. These are medians across all available grades, not prime headline rents. Published prime and Grade A figures quote the top of the market — one refurbished floor in one building — so they sit well above the numbers here, and they should. Neither figure is wrong; they answer different questions. A prime rent tells you what the best space costs. A median with quartiles tells you what you will actually be quoted across the stock that is genuinely available today, which is the number that budgets a requirement. Almost everyone publishes the prime point. Very few publish the distribution.

Industrial — Outside London

SubmarketInstructionsLower quartileMedianUpper quartile
St. Albans10£17.00£17.50£19.61
Hemel Hempstead19£13.94£17.00£21.50
Aylesbury26£10.00£12.00£14.50
High Wycombe16£10.00£11.50£15.57
Letchworth9£10.99£11.44£12.50

Warehouse — Outside London

SubmarketInstructionsLower quartileMedianUpper quartile
Welwyn Garden City10£13.00£14.00£16.30
Letchworth8£11.12£13.93£14.48
Stevenage10£12.00£13.75£16.50
Hemel Hempstead10£12.00£12.74£19.00
Aylesbury13£9.00£12.00£13.75
High Wycombe9£9.95£11.00£16.50

How to read this

Industrial rents compress into a much tighter band than office. A spread above 2× between quartiles usually signals a mix of unit sizes rather than a quality gradient.

Eaves height, yard depth and access drive industrial rates and none of them is captured in a headline rate.

The absence of London industrial supply here is real and worth reading as a signal: last-mile space inside the M25 is not reaching the open market in volume.

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