Buliding writing rooms/ studios to rent out in london

jackinthebox · 18th August 2011

I'm considering moving to a new building in the shoreditch area of london to build myself a new recording studio.
The building has a large basement area with around a ten foot ceiling. Not quite enough height for an ideal situation but manageable. I would build a large live room, a decent sized control room and another writing room adjoining the live room.
There is a very large ground floor area with bathroom and kitchen and enough height to put in a mezzanine floor and effectively double the floor area.
My original idea was to build living spaces on the ground floor and rent out bedrooms to subsidise the cost of the building. It turns out it might be a work only property and that it would be against the law to have people living there so my next thought was to build small recording or writing rooms to rent out. is there a demand for this kind of thing?
I know there is great demand for residential property in london but do you think i would be able to rent out recording studios or AV suites?

Any thoughts would be interesting.

thanks

jack

TapeOpAl · 18th August 2011

I'm in West London and available programming rooms are hard to find around these parts (plenty but all occupied!). I don't know if that's the case where you are. I would suggest that you're starting a business so you should check out your competition. Try and find all the programming rooms in east london and what they're charging!

Fezzle · 18th August 2011

Heya mate, all I know is that quite a few friends of mine who record and tour are looking for reasonably priced writing and recording facilities/rooms to rent , were just up the road so get on it!

mikebailey92 · 18th August 2011

I think there would be demand for this, particularly in Shoreditch; given the large amount of artists (In various media) that live in the area.

psycho_monkey · 18th August 2011

Definitely a demand for it - just about every producer or engineer of note has a room, or a share of one (and many others not of note, myself included!).

Spill/soundproofing being the major problem...but if you can manage that, it can be very profitable.

jackinthebox · 6th September 2011

Very interesting,

i need to work out what would be a reasonable rate and what sort of facilities would be necessary. I guess for a writing room you wouldn't need a huge amount of space. How about access to live room faciilties?
Any names for places that might be currently doing this sort of thing would be good.

Cheers

Jack

mucainsane · 6th September 2011

Dude. I'm just finishing to set up my home studio which happened to have a great equipment for mixing/overdubbing . I got into a conclusion that I'll have to move pretty soon to a facility like that as my bedroom is not soundproofed.I'm really willing to move my equipment but would have to be reasonably cheap. Please send pm me and we can discuss something, ok? Cheers!

18th August 2011	#1
jackinthebox Gear addict Joined: Feb 2006 Location: Manor House London Posts: 494 Thread Starter	Buliding writing rooms/ studios to rent out in london I'm considering moving to a new building in the shoreditch area of london to build myself a new recording studio. The building has a large basement area with around a ten foot ceiling. Not quite enough height for an ideal situation but manageable. I would build a large live room, a decent sized control room and another writing room adjoining the live room. There is a very large ground floor area with bathroom and kitchen and enough height to put in a mezzanine floor and effectively double the floor area. My original idea was to build living spaces on the ground floor and rent out bedrooms to subsidise the cost of the building. It turns out it might be a work only property and that it would be against the law to have people living there so my next thought was to build small recording or writing rooms to rent out. is there a demand for this kind of thing? I know there is great demand for residential property in london but do you think i would be able to rent out recording studios or AV suites? Any thoughts would be interesting. thanks jack __________________ www.jackintheboxmusic.com recording studio, music production and pro audio manufacture. Gotham Audio Cable dealer. Custom GAC-3 mic cables and GAC-7 tube mic cables made to order. www.opalmicrophones.com recording microphones with custom high end upgrades

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mikebailey92 Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2011 Location: London, UK Posts: 549	I think there would be demand for this, particularly in Shoreditch; given the large amount of artists (In various media) that live in the area. __________________ "I'm afraid I just blue myself" http://soundcloud.com/mikebailey92/instrumental-29 https://twitter.com/#!/mikebailey92

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18th August 2011	#2
TapeOpAl Gear addict Joined: May 2007 Location: London, UK Posts: 366	I'm in West London and available programming rooms are hard to find around these parts (plenty but all occupied!). I don't know if that's the case where you are. I would suggest that you're starting a business so you should check out your competition. Try and find all the programming rooms in east london and what they're charging!

18th August 2011	#3
Fezzle Gear addict Joined: Jun 2010 Posts: 409 1 Review written	Heya mate, all I know is that quite a few friends of mine who record and tour are looking for reasonably priced writing and recording facilities/rooms to rent , were just up the road so get on it!

18th August 2011	#5
psycho_monkey Gear Guru Joined: Jun 2006 Location: London Posts: 14,301	Definitely a demand for it - just about every producer or engineer of note has a room, or a share of one (and many others not of note, myself included!). Spill/soundproofing being the major problem...but if you can manage that, it can be very profitable.

6th September 2011	#6
jackinthebox Gear addict Joined: Feb 2006 Location: Manor House London Posts: 494 Thread Starter	Very interesting, i need to work out what would be a reasonable rate and what sort of facilities would be necessary. I guess for a writing room you wouldn't need a huge amount of space. How about access to live room faciilties? Any names for places that might be currently doing this sort of thing would be good. Cheers Jack

6th September 2011	#7
mucainsane Gear Head Joined: Nov 2010 Location: London Posts: 55	Dude. I'm just finishing to set up my home studio which happened to have a great equipment for mixing/overdubbing . I got into a conclusion that I'll have to move pretty soon to a facility like that as my bedroom is not soundproofed.I'm really willing to move my equipment but would have to be reasonably cheap. Please send pm me and we can discuss something, ok? Cheers!