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Editor’s comment
The market
- Canary Wharf Group adds 2,000 BTR flats
- Half marks as just two university cities have adequate PBSA for student influx
- Take part in EG’s 2021 mental health survey
- How to build a real estate brand? Ask the gods
Offices
- Offices suffering worst quarter for rent collection since spring 2020
- Plans revealed for CLI Dartriver’s City redevelopment
- Marketing agency signs for new City fringe office
- Inmarsat takes HQ prelet at GPE’s 50 Finsbury Square
- Royal London takes top floors at EightyFen
- Barings and LBS buy South Bank scheme
- DfE looks to sell Whitechapel site for £60m
- AECOM takes 20,000 sq ft at LGIM’s St Albans site
Residential
- Wokingham Council seeks partner for green housing
- Affordable housing providers seek net-zero carbon solutions in £2bn framework
- Joseph Homes hires head of land
- Joint venture starts last leg of Green Man Lane Estate regen
- Blackstone’s affordable housing turnover triples
- Notting Hill Genesis reveals new homes down by a third
- Schroders and Civitas close £192m social housing fund
- Airspace developers call for changes in fire safety
Industrial and logistics
- Pictet Marchmont jv completes £132m Titan logistics buy
- Chancerygate jv lodges plans for £30m Edinburgh logistics hub
- Savills sells Tottenham trading estate
- Warehouse REIT rises with land deal
Retail
- Shaftesbury reports ‘positive momentum’ in West End
- Shaftesbury appoints CBRE as sole managing agent in move to one-agency model
- Ediston buys Stirling retail park
Finance
- Loan linked to hospital donation makes ESG the Point
- Fortress urges Morrisons to ‘take no action’ after CD&R ups bid
- LXi buys biotech in York and TV in Glasgow
Policy
People
- Montagu Evans hires CBRE director in strategic advisory push
- British Land moves see Cariaga heading resi
- Joseph Homes hires head of land
- MAPP spins out building consultancy arm
Tech
Auctions
Deals
Comment
- Richard Ford: Creating ‘next generation’ new settlements
- Ryan Jones: Business rates reforms could prove to be a Trojan horse
- Sharon French: Communication is critical as the return to the office looms
Legal & professional
- Moving up a gear: why parking is a valuable commodity
- Telecoms Code: The sky’s the limit… isn’t it?
- Easements and the obligations of the servient tenement
- Converting an office to a hotel? Don’t miss out on the available incentives
- Practice point: Does a service charge fall within the definition in section 18 of the 1985 Act?
- Practice point: Prescriptive easement based on lost modern grant – sufficient use required
