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Editor’s comment
The market
Residential
- Selfridges owner plans Croydon co-living
- Nama picks Johnny Ronan and Colony for Irish Glass Bottle site
- PIC agrees BTR debut at New Victoria
- Green light for 1,200 homes at former police training ground
- IM Properties cuts third of housing division
- Homes England gender pay gap ‘not closing quickly enough’
The regions
- Plans in for £650m Nottingham regen
- Baillie Gifford prelets 280,000 sq ft at Haymarket Edinburgh
- Saudi-backed Manchester developer eyes regional expansion
- National deals round-up
London
- Link makes UK debut with £380m Cabot deal
- Incentives spike as rents show shallow dip
- LaSalle tipped to sell Southwark office scheme
- Endurance Land and Angelo Gordon gain approval for Southwark hotel scheme
- Echelon seeks occupiers for 192,000 sq ft data centre campus
Sustainability
- Two-thirds of councils don’t consider climate change in planning decisions
- Landsec targets UK’s first net zero carbon commercial development
- Derwent unveils carbon-zero pathway
- NOMA to offer net-zero spec office development
- Taking the first step on the path to net zero
- Offices could adopt hospital designs for contagion control
- RICS launches rental evaluation service for landlords and tenants
Features
- Lockdown diaries: CaribbeanMGT’s Roger Southam
- The EG Interview: Gresham House homes in on shared ownership
Comment
- Why we need the office, and why you might not realise it
- Why the HQs of old will now need to be ‘miniature datacentres’
- Upward extension PDR is a watershed moment for the industry
Auctions
Legal and professional
- Do all roads lead to commonhold?
- Removing the ‘hold’ of leasehold
- Covid-19 rent concessions: beware a quick fix becoming a long-term problem
- Build to rent: an asset class in a class of its own
- Communication counts on property policies post-Covid
- The burning issue with building design and management
- Life’s a gas (safety certificate) for landlords
- Compulsory purchase orders in Scotland
- Case summary: Assethold Ltd v 63 Holmes Road (London) RTM Co Ltd
- Case summary: ARC Aggregates Ltd v Branston Properties Ltd
