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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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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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All three of construction's sub-sectors have seen their sharpest drop in activity since May 2020, according to the latest S&P Global UK Construction Purchasing Managers’ Index (PMI) for November.
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Aside from a scaled-back mansion tax, the chancellor did little to ruffle or boost the residential sector.
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Lower borrowing costs, first-time-buyer support and new tenure models would help unlock development
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We knew there would be little in the way of good news in the Budget and in many respects it delivered what had been signposted.
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