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Editor’s comment
The market
Offices
- Knight Frank wins £500m Aerium portfolio mandate
- Belgian investor circles City’s Fleet House
- International Dispute Resolution Centre signs for 45,000 sq ft City office
- Why London could be one of Europe’s least resilient office markets
Policy
- Planners slam sweeping PDR that could ‘wipe out essential services for good’
- Industry calls on PM to expand housing for elderly
- Liverpool investigation exposes ‘intimidating’ regeneration and murky deals
- Government offers £1.5bn rates relief but spurns Covid-19 appeals
Finance
- “Manna from heaven”: more take-privates seen for listed real estate
- Hammerson justifies ‘necessary’ incentives as new CEO Gagné takes the helm
- No raise, no bonus for Capco bosses
Retail
- Marks & Spencer hires Arcadia estates boss as head of property
- John Lewis to shut eight stores
- Starbucks franchise brews up 300-store target by 2027
Industrial
- Ardent completes £55m logistics buy for debut UK fund
- Fiera and Wrenbridge acquire Houghton Regis site for 100,000 sq ft shed
Planning
- Cambridge’s greenest office rejected by planners
- Last-mile logistics scheme planned for former Pfizer warehouse
- Unilever’s new Kingston campus set for approval
- Life science add-on planned at Daresbury Sci-Tech
- Developer plans £325m Manchester BTR scheme
Residential
- L&G expands suburban BTR with trio of director hires
- Double vision: Lewisham weighs up near-identical resi v student schemes
- Aberdeen Standard courts investors in fresh €150m raise
- Peabody and Mount Anvil join forces on stalled Hammersmith site
Podcasts
- Market Moves: Lenders rethink risk after a year of Covid
- TechTalk Radio: The evolution of AI in real estate
Auctions
- Dumfries shopping centre sells prior to Allsop auction at near 30% yield
- First of the former Arcadia stores change hands at Acuitus auction
Deals
Comment
- What surging demand means for the data centre market
- Designing PBSA for digital natives is more important than ever
- Vertical farms could help fill empty department stores
Legal and professional
- Weeding out ‘dirty’ money in real estate
- Collaboration in conflict: Mediation in Scottish planning
- The rise of the internal investigation
- MEES: Don’t get caught out at the end of a lease
- The impact of Class E extends far beyond the high street
- Multiple rent repayment orders for multiple offences?
- Collaboration over conflict: Mediation in Scottish planning
- Case summary: Chuan-Hui and others v K Group Holdings Inc and others
- Case summary: City of London Corporation v Various Leaseholders of Great Arthur House
