Jon Neale

Head of UK Research

jon.neale@eu.jll.com

As well as heading the 17-strong UK research team, Jon is responsible for guiding and shaping UK-specific research outputs for JLL – ranging from publications and consultancy work to public speaking and social media. Recent successes include the ‘Digital London’ report on Shoreditch, Clerkenwell and Aldgate, the JLL-Glenigan commercial construction index and the annual alternative property survey.

Jon has over ten years’ experience of working in property, and his career has spanned both commercial and residential as well as the public and private sectors. His current interests include the rise of the alternative property sectors and the growing focus on regional economic performance and devolution, but his real passion is urban design and placemaking.

Blogs by  Jon

What’s the alternative in the UK?

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Alternatives is an unfortunate choice of term to describe property sectors as diverse as student accommodation, healthcare and the private rented sector. It implies that these areas are somehow a bit of a marginal, left-field choice. The reality is quite different, as JLL’s second annual survey of these sectors demonstrates. Of the 52 fund and […]

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Birmingham looks to the future

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The research year in the UK begins with a swathe of property predictions events around the country. This gives a travelling speaker such as myself a chance to analyse and see how our major cities are performing. My first stop was Birmingham. The office market has a relatively high vacancy rate, at least partly a […]

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Signs of strength in the London office market

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Over the past couple of years, overseas investors have been flocking to the Central London office market, drawn by its transparency, liquidity and scale, as well as the prospects for the capital’s economy. So much, in fact, that 2012 saw the highest volumes since the onset of the financial crisis, with international buyers accounting for […]

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