Is it really five years since the working-from-home revolution was going to empty our city centres? With office blocks repurposed as mushroom farms? Reality, it seems, turned out differently. While Fridays are still a little quiet around Obiter Towers, it seems that demand for London office space is booming – led, predictably, by law firms. 

According to upmarket estate agent (sorry, ‘property adviser’) Knight Frank, law firms leased 828,450 square feet of London office space in 2025 – 13% up on the previous year. Of 19 transactions completed by legal sector occupiers for more than 10,000 sq ft of space, 15 were expansionary, with firms either relocating to a new office and acquiring more floor space, or adding an additional office. ‘Law firms are increasingly prioritising the highest-quality workspace on the market – known as Grade A – with newly built and refurbished offices dominating 2025 take-up figures,’ the chaps in red braces tell us. 

More anecdotally, Obiter has detected a trend of returning to Legal London’s heartland – the City and our own ‘Fleet Street Quarter’. Buy up-market patisserie shares now. 

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