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The market
Top stories
- Life sciences experts back potential planning reforms
- M&G buys 166-bed PBSA scheme in Egham
- Rushmere mall on the block for £57m
- Bristol affordable BTR scheme approved
- West End sites revealed as first hubs for Safe Haven app
Interview
Offices
- Portman Estate preps Edgware Road office overhaul
- Khan approves redevelopment of former ITV studios
- Oxford Nanopore mulls HQ move to Abingdon Business Park
- TikTok picks Tropical Fruit Warehouse for Dublin base
Residential
- London Square doubles profit
- International student demand to ramp up London rents
- Present Made gains approval for £160m scheme
- RE Capital gets the go-ahead for luxury Fitzrovia resi development
Planning
- Fujifilm proposes £400m bio campus expansion
- St Modwen gets dual approvals for Longbridge schemes
- Goodstone Living’s £131m Digbeth BTR plans approved
People
- Bernstein drafted in as Liverpool seeks reset
- Navana Property co-founder quits
- OMERS boss joins CBRE board
- Director disqualified for fraudulently claiming £200k in Covid support
Comment
- Breaking real estate’s habit of pointless screens and irrelevant content
- Have the wheels come off the logistics market?
- Why private investors are targeting mixed-use schemes
Legal & professional
- Right of light: Revised guidance receives green light
- Valuing sustainability and net zero carbon by sector
- Inflation and the rising threat of underinsurance
- The Louis syndrome and how to avoid it
- Practice Point: Electronic Communications Code: interim rights – approval condition imposed on operator
- Practice Point: Working from home does not breach covenant to use property only as a single private dwellinghouse
- Practice Point: The slightest defect in a claim notice does not render it invalid
- Practice Point: Rateable value of museums: no methodology to assess socio-economic value
