MORNING NEWS: Daring rescues and market disasters

In the news this morning, The Telegraph reports on a daring rescue attempt being drawn up to save Debenhams from going bust which could see up to 90 stores closed.

Also this morning, government plans to allow takeaway restaurants to be converted into homes without planning permission and American investment firm’s plans for a £480m eight-year expansion of the Village hotel chain.

Elsewhere warnings of a property market disaster stemming from the Brexit legal dispute between European Medicines Agency and Canary Wharf Group.

And EG’s first Future of Real Estate podcast which look at the events, the people and the issues that are changing real estate. This week includes the retail crisis and action on diversity.

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