5/14/2025 10:01:35 AM Scottish Housing Bill Amendment Impacts Student Accommodation Investment By Lucy Owen-Jones A last-minute amendment to the Scottish Housing Bill was proposed by MSP Graham Simpson last week, and has now been accepted, leading...
5/8/2025 11:47:43 AM Why aren’t we building more student beds? By Lucy Owen-Jones Thank you to Newmark for a thought-provoking panel on the very relevant question: why aren’t we building more student beds? Not a simple...
5/1/2025 10:29:53 AM Renters’ Rights Bill: a key amendment By Lucy Owen-Jones Following my previous commentaries tracking the progression of the Renters’ Rights Bill, last week in the House of Lords an amendment was...
4/29/2025 3:38:05 PM UK Living Sectors: Entering a New Phase of Maturity By Chris Xitsas After a turbulent couple of years, UK Living Sectors appear to be entering a more stable and expansionary phase. According to Knight...
4/24/2025 10:27:11 AM Could anti-international student policies in the US and Australia create a UK student accommodation boom? By Lucy Owen-Jones Trump’s extensive tariffs have, as expected, hit global economies hard; most significantly China, the biggest source of international...
2/27/2025 5:14:13 PM Court of Appeal confirms flooding policy guidance is lawful By Robin Barnes The Court of Appeal has recently confirmed the lawfulness of the Government’s flooding planning policy guidance after it was applied by a...
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 Rayners’ great hope for finding space for 1.5m homes over the next five years may be the Grey Belt…… 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...