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  Tough times for British Land and Landsec

  2021-07-29T00:00:00+01:00By Mike Prew

  We read REITs’ reports and accounts from back to front for those interesting notes tucked away. This year, both Landsec’s and British Land’s reports include new data on portfolio energy performance.

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  The time is right for ‘brandlords’

  2021-07-29T00:00:00+01:00By Zoe Ellis-Moore

  The flexible workspace market is still growing apace, but it’s not just flexspace and co-working operators that are fuelling supply. Landlords and commercial property investment groups are also investing in flexspace brands, side-stepping partnerships with existing operators to take a DIY approach.

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  Offices will not suffer like retail

  2021-07-29T00:00:00+01:00By Zachary Gauge

  It only took ecommerce penetration to reach 15% in the UK to ultimately reduce the value of retail real estate by more than one third between 2018 and 2020.

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  Private equity makes a supermarket sweep

  2021-07-29T00:00:00+01:00By Dr Clive Black

  Buses – wait for ages then three come along at once. Such is the case with the interest shown by CD&R, Apollo and Fortress in Morrisons, an equity that has been sidelined in price terms for a sustained period.

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  Business leaders must act fast to ease office-return fears

  2021-07-29T00:00:00+01:00By Liviu Tudor

  The announcement by the prime minister that work-from-home guidance would be lifted on 19 July was met with a sense of optimism by business leaders and property owners, who since March 2020 have faced uncertainty around workforce operations and tenancies.

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  Boris failed to show leadership

  2021-07-22T00:00:00+01:00By Steve Norris

  I know nostalgia isn’t what it used to be, but in my time in parliament I served two prime ministers who I looked up to.

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  The property sector is more nuanced than ever

  2021-07-22T00:00:00+01:00By Nick Leslau

  For decades, the Baby Boomer generation has been able to navigate its way using the property stars, but the trusted constellations seem unusually displaced right now.

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  Staycations will boost the West End

  2021-07-22T00:00:00+01:00By Jace Tyrrell

  Six months ago, I reported on what a difficult year it had been for retail and hospitality, particularly in city centres.

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  What we can expect from COP26

  2021-07-22T00:00:00+01:00By Julie Hirigoyen

  COP26 – the global climate summit being held in November this year – will be a defining moment for humanity.

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  It’s time to tackle fit-out carbon

  2021-07-22T00:00:00+01:00By Richard Bennett

  In boardrooms across the country, real or virtual, the word ‘sustainability’ is bouncing around like a pinball, interspersed with other words like ‘commitment’, ‘zero’ and ‘Paris’.

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  Complying with vacant possession conditions

  2021-07-20T16:26:00+01:00

  The Court of Appeal recently grappled with the issue of vacant possession when terminating a commercial lease in Capitol Park Leeds Plc v Global Radio Services [2021] EWCA Civ 995.

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  How to ride the wave of investment into life sciences

  2021-07-19T11:33:00+01:00By Lee Polisano

  A source of global hope during the pandemic has been the life sciences sector, which has moved with incredible speed to produce vaccines. The sector’s ways of working and its real estate requirements are changing just as swiftly, with a number of existing trends in life sciences now being accelerated ...

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