F&C Property Asset Management has let 16,848 sq ft (1,565 sq m) of office space at Charter Place in Uxbridge, to Canadian independent global energy and chemicals company, Nexen Inc.

Nexen has taken part of the first floor of Charter Place on a 10-year lease at a rent of £23.50 per sq ft (£2.18 per sq m).  Nexen joins existing tenants Coca Cola and Burger King.

F&C Asset Management, advised by Knight Frank, acted for SunAlliance Life Assurance Company.  Haywards acted for Nexen Inc.

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Notes to Editors:

• F&C Asset Management

F&C Asset Management Plc (F&C) was created on 11 October 2004 from the merger of F&C Group (Holding) Limited and ISIS Asset Management plc, the parent company of ISIS Property asset management.  F&C is a pan-European business managing £125.3 billion (as at 31 March 2005) and a top five UK fund manager by assets under management.
 
This also brought together the property arms of the two organisations in the UK with £6.2 bn of commercial property assets under management.  The group will be one of the UK’s five largest property managers. F&C manages over 600 properties and more than 3,000 tenancies with an outstanding team of experienced property professionals managed from London.