Pre-letting and Leasing Strategy
By leveraging our expert market insight into what science and tech occupiers need from their space and business location, you can align your proposals to fund and develop with confidence.

Disposal of a 236,000 sq ft multi-let commercial business park
Our grasp of shifting supply, demand and rents mean we spot trends early to ensure you deliver what the local occupier market wants at the right time.
This deep understanding of the local marketplace gives us an instinctive feel for what works well in our local markets’ research clusters, train station city gateways and established edge-of-city and out-of-town science parks.
We’ll run accurate appraisals on all the options, providing a steer on rents, exit yields, the voids you need to build in, how to best structure and finance the deal and the right mix of uses to maximise values. Finally, we will set up your leasing strategy and seamlessly secure pre-lets on the best possible terms.
Our agency team in Cambridge has pre-let every new office and laboratory scheme built in the city over 50,000 sq ft over the last eight years.
We understand occupier needs across all scales of occupier from incubators, fast-scaling businesses and international corporates, and deliver successful pre-letting strategies
Service options
Biodiversity Net Gain
When the property sector was still grappling with mitigating environmental harm in development a decade ago, Bidwells was busy pioneering a start-to-finish net gain solution for a developer with a biodiversity deficit.
Development Consultancy
Our clients come to us for advice because we’ve been developing and managing science parks and city centre innovation districts in Cambridge, Oxford and Milton Keynes for more than half a century.
Development Funding and Joint Ventures
Our unique understanding of the nuts and bolts of developing property assets for the science and technology sector means we can find and select the right partner to help turn your vision into a reality.
Financial Modelling
Maximising your development returns in the science and technology space takes highly specialist knowledge. Building laboratories and growing science clusters is about more than developing commercial property.
Land Assembly
Whether you’re looking to create an out-of-town science park or a city centre research hub, acquiring land or joining forces with neighbours provides an opportunity to think big.
Project Management
Our project managers are a dominant force in the science and tech sector, in recent years delivering over £2.4million sq ft of S&T space across the Ox-Cam Arc.
Site and Option Analysis
With five decades of experience delivering science and technology projects, we have comparable data to inform the viability and opportunity of development across the Oxford to Cambridge Arc.
Sourcing Off-market and Market Opportunities
Moving into this exciting asset class means fighting off the competition. Our comprehensive knowledge of our chosen markets helps you access and thrive in the science and technology marketplace.
Strategic Planning Advice
Securing planning permission locks value into your development, but it is the early strategic and creative planning advice that creates it.