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Real estate was among the worst-hit sectors for company insolvencies in 2025, with 147 businesses filing for administration, according to analysis by law firm Shakespeare Martineau.
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Property fund outflows in December fell to their lowest level since August, according to the latest Fund Flow Index from global funds network Calastone.
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Savills estimates that UK hotel investment topped £5bn in 2025 and is expected to exceed the 10-year average of £4.7bn by 7.8%, despite geopolitical and macro-economic challenges.
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Sadiq Khan hailed “bold measures” as he joined housing secretary Steve Reed last week to unveil a five-point package to breathe life into the capital’s flatlining housebuilding sector.
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The property market is expected to “respond quickly” to the Bank of England’s decision to cut interest rates to 3.75%, as industry figures point to improving confidence and renewed demand heading into the New Year.
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London mayor Sadiq Khan is on the hunt for a development partner to bring forward two major schemes next to the new City Hall offices in east London.
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The government's Planning and Infrastructure Bill (PIB) has received Royal Assent and officially become law, marking a key milestone in the government's drive to speed up the delivering of housing and infrastructure.
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Fundraising is expected to recover in the new year as investors begin to look again at the UK and Europe, according to Preqin’s ‘Real Estate in 2026’ report.
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The UK property market in Q3 2025 showed gradual stabilisation with selective recovery. Investment activity strengthened in institutional “living” and alternative sectors—particularly Build-to-Rent (BTR), hotels, and industrial outdoor storage (IOS)—while development-led residential and construction remained under pressure. Capital values and rents edged upward across commercial sectors, supported by stable yields, but regulatory uncertainty, high costs, and climate-related risks continued to constrain sentiment and new supply. Overall, the market is bifurcated: income-secure, scalable assets attract capital, while speculative development and secondary assets face ongoing headwinds.
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“People are finally getting to grips with the fact that there is total undersupply of office space in the City,” says James Neville, partner in the City leasing and development team at Allsop.
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Property experts have welcomed new revisions to the National Planning Policy Framework (NPPF) for creating “greater clarity between plan-making and decision-making policies”.
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More than 140 business leaders and experts have warned the government that rumoured plans to scrap biodiversity net gain (BNG) for small sites will have "severe" and "negative" impacts on investment and nature preservation.
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Hopping off the DLR at Canary Wharf, social housing might feel a world away.
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Once a nascent, alternative form of property investment, build to rent (BTR) has now reached maturity. It not only matches but exceeds many benefits offered by other forms of investment
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Let’s start with the uncomfortable truth: if you want to occupy a highly sustainable office, you will struggle to find one outside London and a handful of the UK’s largest cities.
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Homes England has unveiled its new five-year strategy in a bid to boost economic growth and unlock land for 400,000 new homes.
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CBRE has launched its first data-driven hotels index, ranking London as Europe’s most investible market.
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RICS's latest UK Residential Market Survey has found that the housing market 'weakened further’ in November, as Autumn Budget speculation reached ‘fever pitch’.
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The government has already been making moves in this space. From August 2022, the introduction of the Register of Overseas Entities has required overseas entities owning UK property to declare who their beneficial owners were, including non-UK companies.
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The UK healthcare sector has had a record year of property transactions, reflecting strong investor confidence in the market, according to a new report from Knight Frank.
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