Alex Charlesworth

International Partner • United Kingdom

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Alex Charlesworth

International Partner • United Kingdom

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Alex is Head of UK National Building Consultancy and is responsible for all commercial building surveying services. He is recognised by peers and the industry as a specialist dilapidations practitioner, with a comprehensive understanding of the legal issues and has extensive experience representing both landlords and tenants.

He provides construction and building related advice across a wide range of property, to owners, occupiers and investors. He deals with due diligence and acquisition surveys, reinstatement cost assessments, maintenance and refurbishment, and advises on exit strategy. Alex also has wide experience in Purchaser's and Investor's surveys, both individual properties and large scale portfolios across EMEA. He also undertakes building pathology analysis on many types of commercial and historic buildings.

Alex is also responsible for consultancy services across Europe Middle East & Africa (EMEA), in particular relating to cross border due diligence and dilapidations.

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Cushman & Wakefield’s UK Retail Team Adds Mike Bumford As Partner

Bumford joins from Knight Frank’s national retail agency team where he advised landlord clients on retail schemes across the UK, as well as acquiring space on behalf of national occupiers.

Vikki McCrindle • 01/12/2025

London’s New Bond Street Named World’s Most Expensive Retail Destination For First Time 

London’s New Bond Street, where rents have risen by 22% in the past year to $2,231 per square foot per year (psf/yr), has been crowned the world’s most expensive retail destination for the first time.

Lauren Joselyn • 19/11/2025

Cushman & Wakefield Appoints New Head of EMEA Offices Research

Appointment of Kiran Patel strengthens Cushman & Wakefield’s regional insight and client engagement across the office sector.

Lauren Joselyn • 14/10/2025

Cushman & Wakefield’s Valuation & Advisory Team Strengthens Further With Partner Hire

Sally Allsop joins from Cluttons and will be based in Manchester.

Lauren Joselyn • 08/10/2025

Publica Announces 50,000 sq ft Pre-let to General Atlantic at Elephant Marylebone

Publica is transforming the former House of Fraser department store in London’s West End into a best-in-class mixed use destination.

Richard Coleman • 02/10/2025

Defence Sector is Opening Up Strategic, Long Term Real Estate Opportunities Says Cushman & Wakefield Report

‘Strategic Sector Signals’ report outlines the growing demand across Europe’s Defence, Clean Energy, Critical Materials and Life Sciences sectors.

Lauren Joselyn • 01/10/2025

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Cushman & Wakefield Reveals Retail Sectors Driving Growth In Europe

Fashion industry maintains position as the largest retail occupier across Europe.

Richard Coleman • 25/09/2025

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Senior Appointments Signal the Next Phase of Growth for Cushman & Wakefield’s V&A Team

Clare Clarke and Rob Pritchard join as Partners.

Lauren Joselyn • 24/09/2025

From Caution to Strategic Conviction: European Real Estate Finds Its Footing

European real estate is still a strong play, offering real income-producing assets backed by solid long-term trends and fundamentals says Cushman & Wakefield.

Lauren Joselyn • 11/06/2025

Grade A London Office Space Facing Considerable Squeeze Beyond 2025

New quarterly London office data from Cushman & Wakefield highlights the constrained conditions faced by occupiers seeking Grade A space in London and points to further challenges to come, with just 5.91 million sq ft of total office space currently under construction and available beyond 2025.

Lauren Joselyn • 06/05/2025

Occupiers Focus On The Core As The City Breaks Record For Central London Office Leasing Deals

The City of London set a new record for office leasing deals in a calendar year with 339 transactions over 5,000 sq ft in 2024.

Lauren Joselyn • 24/04/2025

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Iconic European Streets See 83 New Luxury Store Openings Despite Ongoing Luxury Market Transition

The European luxury retail real estate market continues to show resilience with further store openings in 2024 despite another year of transition in the luxury retail market, according to Cushman & Wakefield’s European Luxury Retail 2025 report.

Richard Coleman • 03/03/2025

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Research • Investment / Capital Markets

Where Do European Property Values Go from Here?

Scenarios & Implications for Commercial Real Estate (CRE)

Sukhdeep Dhillon • 30/09/2022

Article • Supply Chain

Keeping Lean Supply Chains Relevant in a Post-pandemic World

A lean supply chain, at its heart, focusses on inventory optimisation and operational excellence. It aims to eliminate waste at every stage of the production and distribution process, and so have courted additional terms such as “continuous flow” and “just-in-time”.

15/08/2022

Podcast • Workplace

The Nowhere Office Podcast

As remote working becomes the norm rather than the exception for many office workers around the globe, The Nowhere Office proposes a radical new way of thinking about work both now and in the future.

Michael Creamer • 15/03/2022

Insights • Investment / Capital Markets

The Signal Report: Global Guide to CRE Investing in 2022

Explore a quarter-by-quarter guide to investments in CRE in 2022.

David Hutchings • 27/02/2022

Research • Economy

What to Watch 2022: 10 Indicators for Occupiers & Investors

Here are 10 key areas we believe are worth watching closely as occupiers and investors consider their evolving real estate strategies.

Kevin Thorpe • 21/01/2022

Insights • Workplace

Amenities That Matter: What Brings Employees Back to the Office

Delivering amenities and perks that really matter to your employees.

Marissa Huber • 22/11/2021

Insights

Global Supply Chain Disruptions - Implications for Industrial & Logistics Real Estate

We look at the factors contributing to the supply chain disruptions, assess how the disruptions are impacting the industrial-logistics sector, and offer a path forward as to when we expect these issues to be resolved.

Sally Bruer • 18/11/2021

Research • Workplace

Predicting the Return to the Office

The rise of the Delta variant has increased uncertainty and pushed back return-to-office plans for some occupiers. This global report provides insight into the factors impacting occupier and employee decisions along with a potential trajectory of when employees will return to the office en masse in each global region.

Kevin Thorpe • 24/09/2021

Insights

5 Key Investment Questions About the Global Recovery Journey

Our Global Recovery Journey webinar Q&A yielded outstanding discussion on a range of prescient topics. We’ve asked our expert speakers to address some of those we couldn’t get to in the allotted time.

Kevin Thorpe • 09/08/2021

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Podcast • Workplace

Podcast: Art and Creativity in the Workplace

How can an engaging workplace art programme, in both physical and digital spaces, play a role in engaging staff, nurturing behaviours and developing a creative culture in the workplace?

Michael Creamer • 25/06/2021

Podcast • Workplace

Podcast: Reimagining Office Space as a Service

There is a fundamental misunderstanding that changes to how we work, post-pandemic, are merely an acceleration of trends that were already underway. Are we in fact witnessing the start of a revolution that will utterly transform the dynamics of the real estate industry?

Michael Creamer • 14/04/2021

Podcast • Workplace

Podcast: Wellbeing and Work

We are living a work-life integration where people don’t know when or how to turn off. As these challenging times continue to have a significant impact on employees, have we seen the wake-up call for employers to consider investing in the experience of their employees?

Michael Creamer • 03/02/2021

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UK MarketBeats

Our Marketbeat reports provide quarterly commercial real estate market activity data covering supply, demand, and pricing trends. Explore our UK Marketbeat reports which cover office, life sciences, retail, industrial, investment, and specialist market sectors.

Edward Bavister • 28/07/2025

Research

H1 2025 EMEA Data Centre Market Update

A total of 24GW of data centre capacity across EMEA was operational, under construction, or in planning stages at the start of 2025 with operators increasingly looking beyond traditional powerhouse markets to meet demand.

Laura Shepherd • 17/07/2025

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The EMEA Investor Update

A regular update on the commercial real estate investment scene in Europe.

James Young • 27/10/2022

Article

Latest stamp duty changes and what this means for the UK housing market

Explore how the latest stamp duty changes will affect the UK housing market.

Millie Harper • 23/09/2022

Article • Investment / Capital Markets

The ECB finally joins the rate-hike club

The European Central Bank (ECB) raised rates by 50 basis points at its July meeting, ending eight years of negative interest rates and bringing the deposit rate to zero. Find out what the rate increase means for the commercial real estate market.

Sukhdeep Dhillon • 27/07/2022

Insights

The importance of retrofitting a residential property and how to do it

Retrofitting is the process of making alterations to an existing property to improve its energy efficiency and reduce energy consumption. Retrofitting our homes will be vital if we are to meet current net-zero targets.

Millie Harper • 27/07/2022

Insights • Economy

UK Real Estate Market View

A regular update on the commercial real estate market in the UK.

31/05/2022

Research

Retail Evolution | Microfulfilment

In this report, we look at microfulfilment, as well as the increasingly competitive market for warehouse space. Microfulfilment is the utilisation of bricks and mortar stores to fulfil other functions and ‘work harder’.

Sally Bruer • 19/04/2022

Insights • Workplace

Flexible Offices in the Changing Workplace

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David Smith • 25/01/2022

Article • Sustainability / ESG

COP26 Glasgow Climate Summit: Implications for Real Estate

World leaders representing governments and industry came together in Glasgow, Scotland for COP26 to address how to achieve targets set as part of the Paris Climate Agreement 2015.

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Insights • Sustainability / ESG

The Role of Cities in Defining Our Environmental Future

To support that future, the urban ecosystem needs to be at the heart of urban and development planning. While some might argue that’s a constraint on development, it’s actually an opportunity.

03/06/2021

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