We provide real estate investors with advisory, acquisition, debt & structured finance, valuation, property management, leasing, and disposition services for the full spectrum of life sciences facilities. CBRE’s expertise spans many life sciences categories and property types and leads the industry in managing highly-regulated space.
Clients such as pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device and genomics, as well as contract research organizations (CROs) and contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), rely on CBRE for their real estate services.
Our Capabilities
Lab Space for Rent in the UK
Life Sciences Case Studies
Leadership
Joanne Henderson
Executive Director, Head of Life Sciences UK & Europe
David Williams
Executive Director, Head of Life Science Contracted Accounts
Core Values of our Solutions
We understand the critical nature of your portfolio and prioritise quality, compliance, health, and safety in everything we do.
- Quality & Compliance: CBRE always keeps client's inspection-ready through client quality teams, a global network of life sciences quality experts, and standardised GxP compliant processes and technologies
- Health & Safety: We know the complexities of life sciences research and manufacturing and rely on a strong safety program to assure our people operate safely, and our clients and visitors work in safe and healthy environments
Life Sciences Occupier Services
Enabling better outcomes for your life sciences business through real estate.Our life sciences advisors support facilities, labs, manufacturing space and critical environments for a broad range of companies, including the pharmaceutical industry, contract research organisations (CROs), biotech firms, contract manufacturing organizations (CMOs), medical device companies and the genomics industry.
Health, safety and compliance
We understand the critical nature of your portfolio and prioritise quality, compliance, health and safety in everything we do.Quality & Compliance: we always keeps clients inspection-ready at all times through client quality teams, a global network of life sciences quality experts, and standardised GxP compliant processes and technologies.
Health & Safety: We know the complexities of life sciences research and manufacturing and rely on a strong safety programme to ensure our people operate safely, and our clients and visitors work in safe and healthy environments.
Our Services
Lab Space for Rent in the UK
Leadership
Joanne Henderson
Executive Director, Head of Life Sciences UK & Europe
David Williams
Executive Director, Head of Life Science Contracted Accounts
Life Sciences Investor Services
Using experience, best practices and real-time data, our teams collaborate across markets and disciplines to deliver leading solutions for a broad range of investors, developers and owners of facilities, labs, manufacturing spaces and critical environments.
Our Services
Lab Space for Rent in the UK
Leadership
Joanne Henderson
Executive Director, Head of Life Sciences UK & Europe
David Williams
Executive Director, Head of Life Science Contracted Accounts
Our Thinking
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Discover the latest trends in the UK's Golden Triangle life sciences market.
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Book | Intelligent Investment
European Real Estate Market Outlook 2025
2024 was a period of adjustment, as inflation continued its path back towards target levels, energy price increases had less of an impact on growth, and interest rates peaked.
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Report | Intelligent Investment
UK Real Estate Market Outlook 2025
How will projected economic growth and investment in 2025 shape the real estate market? Discover the latest trends, predictions, and insights in our Outlook to refine your strategies today.
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Article | Intelligent Investment
AI: Accelerating innovation in Life Sciences
Digital technologies have already changed the way we research, develop, and manufacture medicines as well as impacting how patients and their physicians decide when and how they receive medical treatment.
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Report | Intelligent Investment
Life Sciences Construction Benchmarks & Trends 2024
Explore construction trends including conversions, spec vs. build-to-suit and lab/R&D delivery volume, plus information on fit-out costs and TI allowances.
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Article | Evolving Workforces
How Lean Laboratory Design Eliminates Waste
Lean laboratory design is a systematic approach to optimizing lab operations that eliminates eight types of waste by improving processes and productivity.
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Article | Adaptive Spaces
Using Flexible Design Principles Can Future-Proof Life Sciences Facilities
Explore the structural, sustainable and systematic considerations when implementing a flexible design in a life sciences facility.
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2024 started with a renewed sense of optimism. While there was evidence of improved positivity with a pick-up in retail sales, consumer confidence, and a return to economic growth, there have been some less encouraging signs.
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Report | Intelligent Investment
European Life Sciences Ecosystems
Europe is home to some of the world's leading research and academic institutions, making it an attractive hub for life sciences companies.
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Book | Intelligent Investment
UK Real Estate Market Outlook 2024
2023 has been a challenging year for real estate due to persistent inflation and a 15-year high in interest rates, both of which negatively impacted economic growth.
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Report | Intelligent Investment
UK Mid Year Market Outlook 2023
We entered 2023 under the spectre of a moderate recession, with high inflation and rising interest rates putting downward pressure on growth. However, while the UK economy has avoided a recession, it remains under the cloud of high inflation and interest rates.
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Report
Which City? Which Sector?
Towns and cities evolve reflecting their local geographies, natural resources and cultural history. As a result, no two cities in the UK are the same and subsequently, different real estate sectors thrive in different locations
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Article | Creating Resilience
UK Budget 2023: What are the implications for Life Sciences?
The measures announced in the March 2023 budget are encouraging in their support of the UK Life Sciences sector to continue its growth trajectory.
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Book | Creating Resilience
Strengthening Value Through ESG
The real estate industry is uniquely positioned to positively impact our society and the value of the built environment through Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) initiatives.