MORNING NEWS: Offices, alternatives and retail

In the news this morning, Deloitte Real Estate’s latest London Office Crane Survey shows robust levels of new office construction in central London. Click here for all the details from EG, or here for the national’s take.

Investment volumes into alternative real estate are also in good health, clocking up a record high for the sector in the first quarter. Click here for EG’s story.

Elsewhere, a report that investment firm Franklin Templeton had to pull out of a £38m deal to buy an Edinburgh shopping centre after failing to raise bank debt for the retail asset.

EG Highlights: Galliard bags Crossrail site

Heylo appoints Turner and Jopling to the board

Office tech firm shares float plans

TfL’s Candice Lemaitre seeks innovative retailers with ‘financial clout’

Ashley seeks support for legal challenge to Debenhams’ rescue

Sir Philip Green braced for Arcadia showdown

M&S profits dive amid chairman Archie Norman’s scramble to close stores

Grosvenor estate vows to hit ‘net zero’ emissions

Woe is us, says the high street – but it is leases to blame really