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Retail

Supermarket Income forms JV with US giant for £1bn platform push

Partnership to be seeded with £400m portfolio

Investment

Seller halts £1.2bn platform offload amid Trump tariff chaos

Market jitters caused by trade war and owner’s bold ambitions put brakes on UK’s largest private markets real estate process

People

John Gellatly joins Bridges’ board

Former ADIC executive appointed as non-executive director
Office

Dublin office opportunity hits market for €20m

Savills Ireland is seeking buyers for pair of buildings at Ashtown Gate
Corporate

Malaysian developer IJM completes 50% stake acquisition in JRL

Ambition is to build a long-term platform to deliver large-scale developments across the UK
People

L&G’s Erlam departs for new role

Former director of urban regeneration bags senior role with Manchester-based developer
London

German developer marks UK entry with Soho splash

DWI pips Tom Cruise to £30m Wardour Street deal
Investment

OxRes conference: investors braced for bumpy ride

Top investors and managers debate uncertain economic backdrop, AI and shifting sector outlooks

Spotlight

Corporate

Five questions for the Royal London chief who has £1.5bn ready to deploy

Mark Evans, the investment manager’s property and commercial development chief, caught up with Green Street News
Co-living

Q+A: Reza Merchant on bringing &Soul to co-living

Tackling urban loneliness and conscious consumption with giant saunas and sober event spaces, the founder of The Collective is back

Europe news

Retail

Q+A: Hines chiefs – “Retail is back, housing is a forever need”

After a €1.3bn retail buy and a growing residential push, Alfonso Munk and Vanessa Gelado say Spain’s real estate market is just getting started
Logistics

Realty Income enters Poland through €250m+ window of opportunity

US REIT agrees biggest ever CEE sale-and-leaseback with one of Europe’s largest windows manufacturers
Logistics

Q+A: Castignac MD – “Pessimists look smart, but optimists make money”

Julien Claude-Bouilly discusses the French logistics market as Europe continues to brace against geopolitical volatility
Logistics

Global Gate Capital buys €19m Lower Saxony logistics centre

11,200 sq m property is leased to DPD

More from UK & Ireland

Office

Glasgow leads the way as Big Six office markets build momentum

Three cities report double-digit increases in activity year on year
Office

Law firm picks new Edinburgh HQ

Leasing deal close to 30,000 sq ft in size
London

JP Morgan Asset Management drafted in for BP HQ overhaul

Thomas Lau pushes ahead with 1 St James’s Square revamp
London

Deutsche Bank to maintain Canary Wharf outpost

German bank to stay in Docklands following review of office footprint
Scotland

Revcap fires up sale of Edinburgh development opportunity

60,000 sq ft office situated close to a slew of living projects

European real estate recovery to continue despite US tariff turmoil

Income and rental growth to drive prime returns over next five years, AEW says
Harworth and Russell bring forward first phase of Northern Gateway

Outline approval sought for up to 6.5m sq ft of industrial and logistics space
Hines completes £55m Leeds retail park purchase

Junction 27 acquisition marks the global investor’s entry into UK retail market
Revised Elephant and Castle West plans approved

Get Living’s proposals comprise 507 build-to-rent homes and 452 student beds
Europe picks up pace in global life sciences push

London has emerged as the most active market, while the US remains the most established, according to CBRE
£135m Panattoni Park Coventry approved

Reserved matters consent secured for 600,000 sq ft development
Bovis appoints new executive director of operations

Mark Ainsworth joins firm’s board after its acquisition by Atlas Holdings
Nottingham student scheme given go-ahead

Glasshouse Street scheme will be brought forward by PMI Developments and Harcourt Land and Development
£64m west Yorkshire logistics project approved

Glentrool Estates to build out final phase of Sherburn2 site
Helical makes clutch of senior promotions

Six colleagues promoted to senior roles, with Rob Sims appointed as firm’s new finance chief

Analysis

Politics

Tariff turbulence: real estate rallies but uncertainty reigns

Three weeks after “liberation day”, long-term effects are starting to emerge
Regeneration

Unlocking the €4tr brownfield opportunity

Industry specialists discuss the pain and gain of regeneration sites
Residential

One Nine Elms: a long time coming

R&F One’s Guan Zhixiong discusses the Vauxhall scheme’s journey
Corporate

Avison Young’s Nick Walkley: “If you’re not in the big four, you can afford to take risks”

UK president on growing its capital markets offer, European expansion and keeping all doors open
Co-living

Will co-living prove to be a permanent fixture?

Sector activity has increased despite downturn, but planning and management worries remain

Opinion

Office Darwinism: the fight for prime space in a divided market

Traditional leasing playbooks are now obsolete – and those who fail to act early will be priced out entirely
Shah on property: will Americans put the squeeze on CBRE UK when Bird leaves his perch?

The agency giant seems to be prioritising costs and margins around the world
How Heathrow expansion puts London’s industrial market in play

850,000 sq ft of industrial space will need to move – the question is, where?
Is the UK poised for a student accommodation boom?

Anti-international student policies in the US and Australia are likely to benefit investors in UK PBSA
Building safety: as costs mount, courts will be busy

Get Living is not the only landlord affected by the far-ranging Building Safety Act

People

British Land calls staff back to office four days a week

REIT is latest employer to tighten rules around working from home
Panattoni appoints head of capital markets Middle East

Alexandre Daoud will also raise capital for UK and European strategies
Montagu Evans poaches Knight Frank BTR big-hitter

Funding specialist to lead and grow capital markets team as business shakes up residential offer
LaSalle star Zerda to leave

Global investment manager’s European co-chief investment officer resigns
Former KKR UK head scores with Neville and Fora

New firm will target operational assets and development projects
Carb0n expands European footprint

Green real estate adviser launches in the UK

Investment

Q+A: Aware Super – “Real estate might turn out to be a safe haven”

Alek Misev, head of real estate, and Mathieu Elshout, head of European real estate, on the firm’s next move in Europe’s office market, entering Asia and looking at retail again
Life sciences

Five questions for Colonial Group’s CEO on new €2.4bn science and innovation platform

REIT partnering with Stoneshield to target pan-European locations, says Pere Viñolas
Residential

Five questions for Thriving’s Cath Webster

The fund manager recently launched a £200m housing fund in Greater Manchester, with more to come