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A sharp fall in new-build sales rates has left the smallest housebuilders in the country fighting for survival, Savills and the Land, Planning and Development Federation (LPDF) have warned.
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Office construction output fell by 20% in 2025 and has fallen further in 2026, adding to already acute supply shortages, a report from Barbour ABI has revealed.
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The adoption of AI technology across the construction and commercial property sectors has accelerated significantly over the past year, according to new research from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).
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Demand for AI-ready data centre capacity is accelerating across Europe, with emerging AI infrastructure providers securing record levels of capacity in the first half of 2026, according to CBRE research.
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Space under offer across the central London office market has surged to its highest level since 2007, hitting 4.4m sq ft in Q2, according to Cushman & Wakefield's latest Marketbeat Central London Offices report.
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Leasing activity across the 'golden triangle' markets of London, Oxford and Cambridge totalled 151,182 sq ft in Q2, led by a surge in uptake in the capital, according to Knight Frank.
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Residential construction starts across the UK fell 46% year on year in the three months to the end of July, according to data from insight and research company Glenigan.
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The majority of global prime office leasing deals were expansionary in H1 2026, including nearly four fifths of flex office deals and all major AI deals, according to data from Savills.
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Altus Group's pan-European property dataset reveals narrow positive valuation gains in the second quarter of 2026, with overall values up 0.3%, a slight pull-back from the 0.6% increase recorded in Q1 2026.
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Take-up of office space in London rebounded to 2.81m sq ft in Q2 2026, 4% above the 10-year quarterly average and 19% higher than the previous quarter, according to Colliers’ latest Office Snapshots.
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UK real estate markets were resilient in the first half of 2026 despite a more challenging economic and geopolitical backdrop, according to CBRE's mid-year review.
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The UK shopping centre investment market is set for a strong second half of 2026, with deals for 17 centres worth a total £1.1bn under offer, according to Savills.
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Build-to-rent (BTR) construction starts across the UK have fallen 79% in the year to June, according to research prepared by Savills for Real Estate:UK (RE:UK).
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Investment in Ireland’s living sector is expected to hit between €800m (£685m) and €1bn (£857m) this year as global investor activity strengthens, according to Knight Frank.
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Data centre developments could be saddled with new fees for grid access under new proposals from energy regulator Ofgem as it seeks to ease connection queues.
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Prologis’s seismic takeover of SEGRO could be a catalyst for a “more dynamic” UK REIT market and bring more investment into the UK, according to analysts.
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Flexible office operators will be one of the biggest losers of former chancellor Rachel Reeves’ business rates changes, which have sent shockwaves across business models. With flex offices up and down the country potentially on the brink of closure, it is one of the most important structural changes that operators have faced in recent years.
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A total of £1bn of industrial real estate transactions are currently under offer, according to Savills.
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More than £1bn of industrial assets went under offer during Q2 2026, according to new data from Savills.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) firms continued to snap up office space in Central London in Q2 2026, according to the latest data from CBRE.
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