UK real estate company Land Securities has exchanged contracts with law firm Speechly Bircham for the pre-letting of 77,000 square feet (7,000 m2) of office space at the New Street Square development on New Fetter Lane in central London.

UK real estate company Land Securities has exchanged contracts with law firm Speechly Bircham for the pre-letting of 77,000 square feet (7,000 m2) of office space at the New Street Square development on New Fetter Lane in central London.

Speechly Bircham will make 6 New Street Square its new UK head office, occupying the first seven floors of the building at £53.50 per square foot on a 15-year lease. CB Richard Ellis and Jones Lang LaSalle advised Land Securities and GVA Grimley acted for Speechly Bircham. Churston Heard is advising Land Securities on the 2,000 m2 retail element of the scheme.

The office property is part of the 68,000 m2 mixed-use scheme, designed by Bennetts Associates, that replaces an assortment of post-war office blocks with four contemporary office buildings. Land Securities said 2 and 3 New Street Square have already been let to Deloitte and 5 New Street Square to legal firm Taylor Wessing.