Haymarket is a prime-tier Class A submarket of Edinburgh with average asking rent around £44/sqft/yr · ≈ $55.9 PSF/yr USD.

  • Western Class A and tech submarket.
  • Prime tier — ~£44/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Haymarket, Edinburgh — Class A submarket

Western Class A and tech submarket. · Tier: prime · Avg rent: £44/sqft/yr · ≈ $55.9 PSF/yr USD

TL;DR

  • Western Class A and tech submarket.
  • Prime tier — ~£44/sqft/yr.
  • Active Class A leasing market with deal flow across major broker desks.

Overview

Haymarket — the city's western rail interchange — anchors a growing post-2018 Class A and tech submarket. The Mint Building and Haymarket Square define the trophy tier.

Tenant profile

Tech, financial services, professional services, hospitality.

Typical specification

15–40,000 sqft floor plates available across newer Class A stock; 9'+ slab-to-slab and modern MEP common.

Transit

Edinburgh Trams (Haymarket), Haymarket rail.

Multi-modal transit captures the metro's principal professional catchment.

Amenities

Haymarket retail, Murrayfield Stadium nearby.

Comparable buildings

  • The Mint Building
  • Haymarket Square
  • Exchange Place

Where Haymarket sits in Edinburgh

Haymarket is one of 5 Class A submarkets we cover in Edinburgh, classified as prime tier with an average asking rent around £44/sqft/yr · ≈ $55.9 PSF/yr USD. Compared with the broader Edinburgh Class A stock, Haymarket typically attracts Tech, financial services, professional services, hospitality and competes most directly with the city's other prime submarkets on building specification, transit access, and amenitisation.

Adjacent submarkets to study alongside Haymarket: New Town / George Street, St James / Quarter, Lauriston / Quartermile, Fountainbridge / Edinburgh Park. The full Edinburgh submarket atlas is at /cities/edinburgh.

Topic deep-dives for Haymarket

For an institutional Class A occupier evaluating Haymarket, the highest-leverage analyses to commission next are the rent benchmark, the concession-package comparable, and the ESG performance baseline. Class A Atlas covers each as a dedicated topic page for this submarket:

Related glossary

Terminology specific to Edinburgh Class A leasing and to the prime tier: Class A, Trophy asset, Effective rent, Concession package, TI allowance, Submarket tier.

Editorial provenance

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