AN outsourced customer services provider is creating up to 60 jobs, having signed a five-year lease for the first floor of Empire House in Glasgow.

Property consultancy GVA, which acted for Empire House owner George Capital 2 (Glasgow), noted the lease for 12,242 sq ft of space in the West Nile Street office building was part of the expansion plans of Customer Experience People (CXP). Clients of Glasgow-based CXP include Castle Water. CXP has 145 full-time employees and anticipates having a further 60 by November, with the new space additional to the other premises it already has in Glasgow, a spokeswoman for GVA said.

CXP chairman Keith Inch said: “This is an exciting time for CXP and acquiring a third office is a sign of our ambitious plans to expand and create jobs. We are going from strength to strength and understand we needed space in a great location to attract and retain the best staff.”

Michael Facenna, associate in GVA’s business space team said: “The Glasgow office occupier market in 2018 has been extremely strong and we are continuing to see healthy levels of demand, particularly from those occupiers seeking large floor plates of 10,000 sq ft and above.”

GVA said George Capital 2 (Glasgow) was owned by George Capital Real Estate Fund 2, which had “numerous investors, both individuals and institutional”.