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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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Experts warn of ‘significant impact’ to retail and hospitality as total rateable values rise 19.2%
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Occupiers of prime offices in Mayfair, Kensington and Fitzrovia face the largest increases in business rate liabilities from April 2026, the government’s draft rating list for the 2026 revaluation has revealed.
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Most sectors are set for a significant increase in rateable value (RV) and subsequent business rates bills, the government’s draft rating list for the 2026 revaluation has revealed.
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As I’ve noted previously, 2025 has shaped up to be the year of REIT acquisitions. The latest chapter, with Blackstone considering a bid for Big Yellow, shows that the theme is very much still ongoing.
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Last week’s delayed Autumn Budget, one that had been more anticipated than any other in recent memory, was met with disappointment from the property sector.
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The surge in data centre development began during the pandemic, when the nation moved online to work, learn and socialise – and five years on, the hybrid working trend hasn’t diminished.
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