Santander UK has signed up to take the whole of the eighth floor at the Landmark office development in Manchester city centre.
The bank has signed an 11-year lease for the 14,012 sq ft space and will join the likes of HSBC UK, Allianz Insurance, Grant Thornton, JLL and social enterprise Change Please at the building.
The deal was secured by Barings Real Estate and comes after the recent letting of the 13th floor to global business platform, Xero UK and the ninth floor to global audit, tax and consulting firm RSM UK.
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Ian Mayhew, managing director, UK asset management at Barings, said: “Santander UK is a welcome addition to our occupier base at Landmark and we are looking forward to the team becoming operational in their new office.
“We have invested heavily in our occupier experience and the building’s environmental and technological credentials and we are pleased this is being recognised.
“We are delighted to have secured over 40,000 sq ft of new lettings at Landmark in Q4 2022 alone. We have strong interest in the remaining last floors and look forward to making further announcements in due course.”
Dan Margolis, senior surveyor in Colliers’ National Offices team who represented Santander UK, added: “The award-winning Landmark is an exceptional workplace in Manchester’s premier business district and every detail from health and wellbeing, customer experience, digital connectivity to the environment has been considered.
“This, coupled with being located in the same building as other global occupiers will create an excellent working environment for the Santander UK team.”
Leasing agents on Landmark are CBRE and JLL. Santander UK was advised by Colliers.
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