Workspace Group has acquired a Grade-II listed building in Finsbury Circus in the City of London for £158.7m (€181m).

Salisbury House is held on a long leasehold from the City of London Corporation.

Jamie Hopkins, chief executive of Workspace Group, said: “The City has become an increasingly attractive area for our customers, and this well-located building is ideally suited to our operational model.�

He said the company had been considering buying Salisbury House for some time.

The property has 240,000sqft of lettable space and is currently 90% occupied with 105 customers.

It is being bought at a capital value of £661 per square foot and a net initial yield of 5%.

Over the past 12 months, it generated net rental income of £8.1m, Workspace Group said.

The deal will be funded from the company’s existing resources, it said, including an additional £100m of five-year revolver facilities provided by its bank lending syndicate under the overarching agreement already in place.