What are the pitfalls for investors as student accommodation booms?
Student accommodation, once an ‘alternative’ or ‘specialist’ asset class, is evolving into a mainstream investment, attracting a variety of global institutional investors. More data and the sheer volume of deals paint a similar picture of real estate investors’ growing desire to gain exposure to student accommodation strategies and capabilities.
How do criminals use commercial property to launder money?
When it comes to money laundering, London and residential property take the lion’s share of headlines, but making dirty money clean is an activity that is widespread across the UK, with prosecutions associated with commercial property common.
Will corporate disclosure rules affect the battle to retain talent?
New UK legislation coming into force soon will require more disclosure of beneficial ownership, which is going to make it much more straightforward to identify the individuals behind corporations.
Could senior living schemes play a key role in reviving high streets?
Following L&G’s recent plans to convert a former Bath Homebase store into retirement living housing, there has been much discussion on whether senior housing could form part of the mix to revive UK high streets.
Will regulation help the industry to meet net-zero-carbon target?
Decarbonising our built environment is vital to reaching the UK’s net-zero ambition.
What are three key elements of the proposed Environment Bill?
The government published its Environment Bill in October, which it says will grapple with the biggest challenges of the modern era.
How would post-Grenfell sprinkler proposals affect project costs?
We now have the response to the consultation on fire safety post Grenfell, with news that all new blocks of flats extending six storeys or higher could require sprinkler systems under proposed government plans.
Are we set to enter age of the instant electronic property deal?
The Law Commission report on the ‘electronic execution of documents’, published in September, provides welcome clarity to practitioners as to the legal status of electronically executed documents. In a nutshell, it says that unless there is a legal bar to executing a document electronically, then such execution is fine.
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