The move that works on Monday
It happened — 2026Cushman & Wakefield — London Moves 2026
London is entering a moving wave with nowhere to move to: more than 50 million sq ft of office leases expire between 2026 and 2030, with City vacancy under 3%. And the constraint that decides every move is invisible in the brochure: a new fibre line in London can take months — the connectivity order, not the furniture, sets the real date.
Your version has a signed lease and a booked removals van. Twenty people trading three thousand tired square feet for two thousand better ones, and a plan that says the IT “comes along with the boxes”. Nobody has asked how long the new internet line takes, whether the new floor has enough sockets for hot-desking, or who plugs in what on Sunday night so that Monday at nine simply works.
This is you if The removals date is booked; the IT plan is “it'll come along”; nobody has ordered the line at the new office; there's a server cupboard nobody wants to talk about.
How we run it
The division of labour is stated up front.
The removals firm moves things; we make what's moved work. We plan with a trusted removals partner we work with regularly — one timeline, two crews, and no gap in the middle where “someone” was supposed to reconnect the switch.
The internet gets ordered the day the lease is signed.
A new line in London can take months, and every other date hangs off this one. If the dates won't meet, a 4G/5G stopgap keeps the first weeks working while the real line lands.
Both sites get surveyed before anything is priced.
Old office: what moves, what retires — wiped, with a record. New office: cabling, power, WiFi against the actual desk plan. The fixed quote exists only after this, because a relocation priced off the cuff is how fixed prices stop being fixed.
On the weekend, they carry and we build.
Racks, patching, WiFi tuned to the real floor, every desk tested against a checklist — not “it powers on” but “it does its job”. On Monday morning a person stands in the new office, fixing first-day surprises at the desk.
Made boring by: a fixed price after the survey, staged against milestones — and a move your team notices mainly because the new office is nicer. Per-job · quoted after a site survey
Real market data: Cushman & Wakefield, 2026. The twenty-person firm is illustrative.