Serviced office company Avanta is making its national television debut, with its Austin Friars business centre in the City of London playing a starring role in the BBC2’s Million Dollar Traders series, aired throughout 3 weeks in January. 

The programme forms part of the BBC’s City Season, and gives eight ordinary people a million dollars and a fortnight’s intensive training to help prepare them to launch their own hedge fund and try to make their fortune in the stocks and shares market.

The production team and novice traders spent two months filming in Avanta’s 53,000 sq ft building at 23 Austin Friars.  The traders set up camp in one of the buildings grade A office suites, buying and selling in the stock market in an attempt to make their millions.