2/11/2025 7:55:25 AM Roadblocks along the Gateways: How delays are holding back high-rise development By Chris Xitsas Delays at the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) are creating significant challenges for high-rise residential development. Under the...
2/10/2025 3:14:07 PM Angela’s Grey Belt By Rob Atkin-House Angela Rayner's great hope for finding space for 1.5m homes over the next five years is the Grey Belt. It is a particularly uninspiring...
2/6/2025 3:03:10 PM How much is too much? Enforceability of default interest provisions in loan agreements By Hannah Zaback When times are good and money is cheap, borrowers will be less concerned with interest provisions of loan agreements beyond the standard...
10/31/2024 1:30:09 PM Renters’ Rights Bill: significant reforms may have a significant impact By Lucy Owen-Jones Labour’s Renters’ Rights Bill promises to resolve substantial failings in the private rented sector, but what are its key provisions and...
3/11/2024 8:06:39 AM There goes SDLT Multiple Dwellings Relief By Chris Xitsas One of the surprise (and less talked about) announcements from the Spring Budget this week was the abolition of SDLT Multiple Dwellings...
4/27/2023 10:33:08 AM ALT/RESI UK - Invest tribe: “Getting creative in the living sectors during uncertain times” By Chris Xitsas After a good run post-COVID, market uncertainty has impacted transaction volumes in the living sector. The key challenges over the 9-12...
2/20/2023 2:46:12 PM Alternative real estate assets expected to outperform in 2023 By Hamish Riches Alternative asset classes such as life sciences, student accommodation and Build-to-Rent are expected to show the best financial...
1/26/2023 12:10:15 PM Students don’t want a concierge and a cinema, they want cheap rooms By Robin Barnes Interesting article in Estates Gazette on student accommodation. Student numbers are up to record highs for the third year in a row, and...
1/23/2023 10:24:31 AM PBSA hit a record year in 2022 By Chris Xitsas Knight Frank reported this week that the purpose-built student accommodation market hit a record £7.2bn of investment in 2022. More than...
10/7/2022 5:29:00 PM How countercyclical can the student housing sector prove to be? By Chris Xitsas Commercial real estate has certainly come up against strong headwinds in the last couple of weeks. The announcement of the new...
3/2/2021 12:00:00 AM Student Accommodation sees green shoots of spring By Zoe Miller Warmer weather, impressive vaccination figures and a slow easing of lock-down measures and it is no wonder that one starts to see the...
5/7/2020 1:13:00 PM Purpose Built Student Accommodation - what now? By Zoe Miller The purpose-built student accommodation market was estimated to be worth more than £50bn by Knight Frank ahead of the Covid-19 outbreak,...