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Editor’s comment
The market
London
- Whitechapel £450m office scheme rejected amid heritage concerns
- Fresh home working rules will hit central London ‘disproportionately hard’
- West End landlords cheered as shoppers undeterred by Plan B Covid-19 rules
- Hogan Lovells’ planned City headquarters gets green light
Offices
- Plans lodged for HMRC’s Pilgrim’s Quarter offices
- Abrdn forward funds £54m glass innovation hub
- ‘We believe in the growth story’: M&G on its Manchester plans
- SAP relocates North West team to new hub near Manchester
- SE Land & Estates picks up former Brick Lane brewery site
- Liverpool reveals plans for net-zero Hemisphere building
- Data firm strikes WeWork tie-up
- Middlecap signs first tenant at ‘world’s smartest office’
- Palace Capital secures new office tenant for York scheme
Valuation
Residential
- London councils boost housing in planning flurry
- Housing committee calls out delay of levelling up white paper
- TfL revs up £1bn partner hunt
- Retirement developer fails to sell a single flat in luxury block in two years
- Central London residential rents begin recovery
- London Square and Moda ink Nine Elms deal
Development
- Brookgate plans 1m sq ft of offices and labs at Cambridge North
- Derwent to buy Moorfields Eye Hospital in £200m redevelopment
- Peel L&P reveals Chatham Docks redev plans
Retail, leisure and logistics
- Hammerson sells Silverburn centre
- Wetherspoon boss warns of ‘lockdown by stealth’
- Bright lights come to Brent Cross Town with film studio at former Toys ‘R’ Us
- Town Centre Securities signs new F&B tenant at Leeds Arena Quarter
- The Range takes 475,000 sq ft from Argos in Stafford
- Mayfair Capital trust bags two retail parks for £35m
- Sorbon Estates agrees first lettings at Maidenhead’s Waterside Quarter
Finance
- Grosvenor and Insurami team up to offer deposit-free leasing
- Listed real estate fundraising surges in pandemic
People
- Bidwells names Nick Pettit as senior partner
- CBRE appoints Fenn-Smith as ESG MD
- Packaged Living hires investment manager
- BNP hires Savills healthcare duo
- Industry veterans join Stories board
- Tributes paid to sustainable real estate expert Sarah Sayce
Podcasts
- EG Future Leaders: A night of hope, pride and maybe the odd little tear
- EG Like Sunday Morning: Life sciences, the North and more of the week‘s news
- Behind the rides: what being part of the Club Peloton family really means
Auctions
- Dundee mall smashes guide price in final Acuitus sale of the year
- Million-pound lots help Bond Wolfe set new sales record in 2021
- Allsop December commercial auction sees record buyer activity
Deals
Comment
- Why emissions regulations are forcing a rethink of urban delivery models
- ‘We are most likely three to five years behind government broadband targets’
- Action cannot stop at ‘I’ve installed solar panels’
Legal & professional
- What you need to know about the Insurance Distribution Directive
- Is the age of the CVA over?
- An invasion of privacy? What landowners need to know about video technology
- Totting up HMRC’s position on VAT and break payments
- Practice point: Establishing common intention
- Practice point: FTT entitled to limit its decision to the reference before it
- Ignore the lease at your peril
- Legal notes: A matter of trusts
- Case summary: On Tower UK Ltd v JH & FW Green Ltd
- Case summary: Palmview Estates Ltd v Thurrock Council
