Reading Time: 2 minutesSouth Korea: An IGIS Asset Management-owned co-living and hotel building in Seoul’s Hongdae neighbourhood has attracted five shortlisted bidders, including SK D&D and a Blackstone consortium.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: Build-to-rent (BTR) developer Placefirst has delivered a £21 million residential development in central Halifax, transforming a long-vacant brownfield site into 122 new rental homes.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteNetherlands: Property developer M&G Real Estate has acquired a €60 million (£51.3 million) build-to-rent (BTR) scheme in The Hague, called The Rock, in partnership with Dutch developer Rockfield Real Estate.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The supply of flexible office space across the UK rose sharply in the first quarter of 2025, with new figures from flexible office marketplace Rubberdesk revealing a 32 per cent year-on-year increase in availability, pushing total stock to more than 8.6 million square feet.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Property management company Rendall & Rittner has appointed Jack Quainton as its first heat network manager, a newly created role aimed at strengthening regulatory compliance and service delivery across its portfolio.
Reading Time: 2 minutesUK: The Crown Estate has entered a £24 billion joint venture with Australian property developer Lendlease, acquiring a 50 per cent stake in six major regeneration schemes across London and Birmingham.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Real estate investment and asset manager Catella APAM has brought a city centre build-to-rent (BTR) opportunity in Leeds to market, launching the sale of Zurich House on behalf of client NPV International.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Abode Asset Management has submitted plans to convert a former leather factory in Radford, Nottingham, into a 205-bedroom student accommodation scheme.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: 2 Trafalgar Way, the future home of Europe’s largest Passivhaus student accommodation scheme, has reached its full height with the topping out of Tower 2 in London.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteUK: Coworking space Flexworks has launched in Hull city centre, developed by local property investment firm Virginia Homes and backed by a £330,000 commercial loan from Allica Bank, a challenger bank focused on small and medium-sized businesses.
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