{"id":321512,"date":"2025-08-06T03:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321512\/"},"modified":"2025-08-06T03:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:46:13","slug":"canary-coup-as-visa-picks-wharf-for-new-hq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/321512\/","title":{"rendered":"Canary Coup As Visa Picks Wharf For New HQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1744977801_959_placeholder.png\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Placeholder\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Visa is in talks to relocate its UK headquarters to <a class=\"tag tag-38251\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/canary-wharf\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"38251\" rel=\"noopener\">Canary Wharf<\/a>\u00a0as activity in the London office occupational market continues to pick up.<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0170K SF block it is eyeing is at One Canada Square, one of the UK\u2019s tallest skyscrapers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/a40983af-09da-40da-92a7-750f095124a4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Financial Times reported<\/a>. The building is owned by <a class=\"tag tag-124777\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/canary-wharf-group\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"124777\" rel=\"noopener\">Canary Wharf Group<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The credit card giant\u00a0will\u00a0take over space being vacated by ratings agency <a class=\"tag tag-118598\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/moodys-1\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"118598\" rel=\"noopener\">Moody\u2019s<\/a>, which is moving to the City. Moody\u2019s\u00a0is leasing 111K SF at <a class=\"tag tag-175354\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/cbre-investment-management\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"175354\" rel=\"noopener\">CBRE Investment Management<\/a>\u2019s 10 Gresham Street, with the option of leasing another 32K SF.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Visa will relocate from about 150K SF in a building at <a class=\"tag tag-126915\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/british-land\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"126915\" rel=\"noopener\">British Land<\/a>\u2019s <a class=\"tag tag-126413\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/paddington-central\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"126413\" rel=\"noopener\">Paddington Central<\/a> scheme on a lease that runs to 2028.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As well as Moody\u2019s, those moving out of\u00a0Canary Wharf include <a class=\"tag tag-44993\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/clifford-chance\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"44993\" rel=\"noopener\">Clifford Chance<\/a>, State Street and <a class=\"tag tag-33213\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/hsbc\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"33213\" rel=\"noopener\">HSBC<\/a> \u2014 although HSBC might actually be leasing more space in the Wharf because its new City HQ may be too small.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"tag tag-40807\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/deutsche-bank\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"40807\" rel=\"noopener\">Deutsche Bank<\/a> is reviewing its Canary office occupancy.<\/p>\n<p>Those staying put include <a class=\"tag tag-6060\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/morgan-stanley\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"6060\" rel=\"noopener\">Morgan Stanley<\/a> and <a class=\"tag tag-37050\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/barclays\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"37050\" rel=\"noopener\">Barclays<\/a>, and <a class=\"tag tag-4085\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/jpmorgan-chase\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"4085\" rel=\"noopener\">JPMorgan Chase<\/a> is expanding\u00a0after completing a deal to take 150K SF at 1 Cabot Square that\u00a0was previously occupied by <a class=\"tag tag-515\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/credit-suisse\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"515\" rel=\"noopener\">Credit Suisse<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>London office leasing hit 2.7M SF in the second quarter, data from <a class=\"tag tag-39751\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bisnow.com\/tags\/savills\" target=\"_blank\" data-tag-id=\"39751\" rel=\"noopener\">Savills<\/a> showed, up 18% on the same period last year. Firms looking for large chunks of space have been starting search requirements ever earlier due to the lack of suitable options, a situation caused by the lack of new development for the past five years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Visa is in talks to relocate its UK headquarters to Canary Wharf\u00a0as activity in the London office occupational&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321513,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,25596,46091,393,4884,257,16,15,1236],"class_list":{"0":"post-321512","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-canary-wharf","10":"tag-canary-wharf-group","11":"tag-england","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-visa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114979771684787905","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321513"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}