King Sturge's Research and Information Centre acts as a central strategic resource for the firm, producing research publications and providing bespoke research consultancy services to clients. The London-based research team works closely with colleagues in the King Sturge network across UK and mainland Europe as well as linking with the worldwide network.

The Research department has a proven track record of undertaking a wide range of studies for private and public sector clients, some of which involved working with other consultants from multi-disciplinary expertise. Examples of recent assignments include:

• Working with the Urban Land Institute of Europe to develop the key principles of the sustainable development involving case study analysis, focus group decisions and a questionnaire survey.
• Undertaking a comparative analysis of office markets to assess the possible impact of redevelopment of York Railway Station on behalf of Network Rail.
• Industrial and warehousing land demand study undertaken jointly with lead consultants Roger Tym & Partners on behalf of the Greater London Authority.
• An assessment of office and logistics demand for a major UK airport, by undertaking a comparative analysis of airports in Brussels, Paris and Frankfurt. An analysis for a leading retail property investor, the impact of out-of-town and in-town retail trends and the likely impact of the sustainable agenda for future demand.

By blending King Sturge market information with external sources, the Research department is able to provide an in-depth analysis and market trends at town, city and regional level. By subscribing to various economic and property market services, the department is able to blend property market knowledge with other key data. These include services provided by Experian Business Strategies Limited, Oxford Economic Forecasting, Investment Property Databank, Real Estate Foreasting Limited, EuroStat Information. King Sturge has an in-house GIS (Geographical Information System) capable of providing a wide range of functions for target marketing mapping an analysis of 3D maps, thematic maps, complex demographic queries.

King Sturge Research is made up of an integrated pan-European team but focused on four inter-related markets: the Industrial and Logistics market, the Office market, the Retail and the Residential market. Understanding current and future occupational market trends is blended with an understanding economic and investment market analysis to provide a pan-European understanding all the major capital markets.

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