Moving house can be a tedious business, with all the packing, unpacking, paperwork and financial upheaval. Imagine how much more tedious, then, is the process of moving an entire corporate headquarters, given the huge extra scale of the packing, unpacking, paperwork and financial upheaval.
So, given the amount of other things occupying the minds of C-suite executives at the moment, it is perhaps surprising that so many of them are moving their head offices. According to research from real estate advisory group CBRE, 96 companies relocated their headquarters either to or within the US last year — that’s a big increase on the 18 in 2023 and 20 per cent higher than the