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Apollo funds buy rental property manager Gatehouse Living

Ciaran Nerval — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 09:11:40 +0000

Funds managed by global alternative assets manager Apollo have acquired Gatehouse Living Group (GLG), a residential investment manager that operates 10,000 homes.

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Greenridge sells Waitrose and John Lewis warehouse in Ipswich for £28.6m

Madeleine Knight — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 08:50:21 +0000

The property was originally purchased in May 2024 for £21.9m as the third acquisition for Greenridge’s GO Fund.

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Fresh set to manage 604-bed Edinburgh PBSA scheme

Ciaran Nerval — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:19:34 +0000

The Mantle Yard scheme in Leith is under development and set to open in time for the 2027-28 academic year.

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Rightmove hit by £1.5bn lawsuit over ‘unfair’ fees

Ciaran Nerval — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:39:41 +0000

The estate agents claim Rightmove has used its online dominance to "financially squeeze subscribers by consistently and materially raising prices without proper justification".

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Two thirds of investors boosted their healthcare allocation in 2025, CBRE finds

Ciaran Nerval — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 08:26:42 +0000

In its 2026 Healthcare Sentiment Survey, CBRE revealed that approximately £10bn was invested in the care home sector last year, accounting for 79% of all healthcare investment.

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Frogmore to exit fund management business

Lewis Berrill — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:40:48 +0000

The company confirmed the move after a series of recent administrations as it winds down its £400m FREP III value-add fund, with a host of schemes being sold off or handed back to lenders.

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Government’s £16bn National Housing Bank opens for business

Ciaran Nerval — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 12:46:46 +0000

Homes England has officially launched the National Housing Bank alongside a new investment plan, which will look to deploy £16bn of debt, equity and guarantees to deliver 500,000 new homes.

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BlackRock enters £1bn JV with GMPF to drive primary healthcare investment

Madeleine Knight — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:50:34 +0000

The JV has been launched with a seed portfolio of 65 primary care assets serving over 700,000 patients.

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Chancerygate and Bridges complete €40m Dublin logistics development

Madeleine Knight — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:57:06 +0000

Three units totalling 31,200 sq ft have been pre-let at Airport Trade Park, a grade-A urban logistics development near Dublin Airport.

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Databricks to quadruple London office footprint amid £643m UK investment drive

Lewis Berrill — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:51:51 +0000

AI company Databricks has announced plans to invest more than $850m (£643m) in the UK over the next three years.

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USS to acquire majority stake in Venn Partners

Madeleine Knight — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:25:42 +0000

The deal with the UK’s largest private pension scheme will boost Venn’s capacity to invest in UK housing.

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Shared home ownership comes with ‘longer-term financial risks’, NAO warns

Ciaran Nerval — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 12:21:21 +0000

The report found that the complexities of service charges and ‘staircasing’ – where customers increase the proportion of the property they own rather than rent - make the product hard for consumers to understand.

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Tishman Speyer snaps up Lazari’s Pall Mall office

Jamie Bennett-Ness — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:19:08 +0000

50 Pall Mall comprises 33,888 sq ft across nine floors and is 87% let.

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Forsters adds Morgan to banking and finance team

Madeleine Knight — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 10:05:53 +0000

He joins from Macfarlanes, where he was as partner and had worked for over 15 years.

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Plus Dane Housing wins £60m loan from HSBC

Ciaran Nerval — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:58:08 +0000

The five-year loan sees HSBC become a new strategic lender to the housing association.

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Government launches £165m fund to unblock stalled housing sites

Ciaran Nerval — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 09:20:32 +0000

The Department for Transport funding will be used to finance new transport improvements in a bid to unlock housing development sites.

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Government commits £70m to tackle building safety skills gap

Ciaran Nerval — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:44:08 +0000

The three-year funding programme aims to increase the number of Class 3H professionals qualified to inspect high-risk buildings, as well as training new fire engineers.

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Trent & Dove secures £88m finance package to boost affordable homes

Madeleine Knight — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 09:43:07 +0000

Scottish Widows provided £55m and Lloyds £30m to back the not-for-profit housing provider's operations in Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Leicestershire.

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JP Morgan looks for business rates discount to unlock £3bn Canary Wharf office project

Jamie Bennett-Ness — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:25:20 +0000

Tower Hamlets Council is set to agree a business rates discount for the planned 3m sq ft tower, which would be the largest and most expensive office building in London.

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PIC buys Lincoln MGT’s Reading BTR scheme in £200m-plus deal

Ciaran Nerval — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:58:24 +0000

The pension fund's puchase of the 598-home Ebb & Flow scheme is its largest BTR deal to date, adding to a portfolio containing four other developments.

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Avant Homes greenlit for £67m Barnsley development

Ciaran Nerval — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:35:15 +0000

The housebuilder will start on the 289-home scheme this spring and aims to have the first properties ready for sale by the end of the year.

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Town Centre Securities eyes stability and selective acquisitions amid market pressures

Madeleine Knight — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:33:56 +0000

Town Centre Securities (TCS) has reported a “resilient and stable” trading performance for the six months ended 31 December 2025, which it expects to continue into 2026.

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Home REIT plans stock exchange return after publishing accounts and selling assets

Ciaran Nerval — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:12:17 +0000

The REIT said it had sold most of its portfolio and published all financial information required for a return to stock exchange trading, following a three-year suspension amid a crisis over its business model.

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Social Housing REIT boosts earnings under Atrato’s management

Madeleine Knight — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:11:13 +0000

Adjusted earnings per share rose 20.9% in 2025 as the new manager increase rental income and reshaped the portfolio through sales and lease transfers.

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War in the Middle East spells more trouble on the home front

David Parsley — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:07:39 +0000

A fragile recovery reflected in housebuilders’ results just before the outbreak of the Iran conflict is likely to be reversed as interest rates and materials prices rise.

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