Comment: Industrial talks

Following record take-up in 2014, Savills’ Richard Merryweather predicts sustained rental growth for key markets in the supply-constrained industrial sector

Thai Leisure Group has recipe for success

ake one determined restaurateur from Thailand, add a successful chain of Thai eateries in northern England and garnish with a dancing troupe of ladyboys to form a leisure offering that considers itself suitable to move south

Vacant credit row rumbles on

When Estates Gazette uncovered a government planning blunder that could potentially hand developers billions of pounds of cash intended for affordable housing, the real estate sector stood up and said the vacant building credit was wrong and government should amend its guidance. But housing minister Brandon Lewis refuses to budge