9 December 2025
Knight Frank appoints new senior partner and group chair
Global property consultancy Knight Frank has announced that Rory Penn will succeed William Beardmore-Gray as the firm’s senior partner and group chair in April 2027.
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9 December 2025GCW promotes Jack Suiter
Property consultancy GCW has promoted Jack Suiter to senior surveyor.
9 December 2025The receipts and expenditure business rates reckoning
The 2026 draft local rating lists have landed, and one thing is already clear: the receipts and expenditure method, once a niche valuation approach used only for a handful of specialist assets, is now one of the most consequential forces in the business rates system. For many properties, it has become the driver of the biggest increases in rateable values ever seen.
9 December 2025Feldberg and Henry Boot lace up Series I for £1 billion UK mid-box drive
Feldberg Capital and HBD, part of Henry Boot, have closed Series I of Origin, their UK mid-box industrial and logistics venture launched in December 2024.
8 December 2025Graham + Sibbald head of residential passes on the baton
Graham Tonner, Head of Residential, has announced his retirement from Graham + Sibbald after 26 years with the business.
5 December 2025Cain adds Jamie’s Italian to hospitality platform ahead of UK re-entry
Global investment firm Cain has added Jamie's Italian to its roster as part of its Brava Hospitality platform, in a bid to bring the brand back to the UK market.
5 December 2025The Building Safety Act's impact on mixed-use development
In response to the Grenfell tragedy the Building Safety Act 2022 introduced sweeping reforms to improve the safety of people living in multi-occupancy buildings. Obligations to remediate historic building safety risks, a new gateway regime to control construction and refurbishment and a stringent duty-holder regime for the management of higher risk buildings are now mandated priorities for anyone involved in the development, ownership or management of residential property.
4 December 2025Savills buys majority stake in Singapore-based property and facilities management platform
Savills has bought a majority shareholding in Alpina Holdings, a Singapore-based property and facilities management platform.
3 December 2025LaSalle Investment Management shakes up global leadership
LaSalle Investment Management, the global investment management business of real estate services firm JLL, is making a change at the top, with Brad Gries promoted to global chief executive and Tim Kessler to president.
3 December 2025Rapleys recruits trio for Cardiff building surveying launch
Rapleys has increased its presence in Cardiff with a building surveying team comprising Richard Frost as partner, Jack Rowe as associate partner and Rhys Davies as associate. The trio joins from Avison Young.
2 December 2025Farebrother expands with partner appointment
London adviser Farebrother has appointed Tom Brammeld, formerly of JLL, as a partner. He will join in January 2026.- 2 December 2025
Shaftesbury Capital flags strong leasing across London retail and leisure estates
Shaftesbury Capital said strong leasing, as well as £80 million of acquisitions in the year-to-date, was providing it with confidence in its medium-term targets, as it gave a trading update for 1 July to 31 October 2025. 
2 December 2025Leading UK retail and leisure adviser Justin Taylor dies
Justin Taylor, one of the best-known and regarded UK retail and leisure advisers, has died.
2 December 2025Strettons appoints managing director
Multi-disciplinary property consultancy Strettons has appointed Mark Bolton as its managing director, succeeding the late Simon Tilsiter who passed away in October following a brave battle with cancer.
2 December 2025Tikehau Capital announces plans for unified real estate platform
Tikehau Capital, the French global alternative asset manager, announces its intention to merge its subsidiary Sofidy, an independent leader in real estate savings and a specialist in SCPIs, effectively French open-ended real estate funds, with Tikehau Investment Management, its asset management company.- 1 December 2025
The winners and losers in the new business rates rating list
The Government’s draft rating list for the 2026 Revaluation, published immediately after the Autumn Budget last Wednesday (26 November), reveals that there are very few winners in rateable value (RV) terms, with many sectors seeing significant rises, primarily because the last list was based on the low 2021 rental values influenced by Covid. 
1 December 2025Ares consolidates global logistics platforms under single 'Marq' brand
Global alternative investment manager Ares Management Corporation has unified its global logistics real estate platforms under a single brand, Marq Logistics, in a move prompted by its acquisition of warehouse giant GLP earlier this year.
1 December 2025Newmark bolsters valuation team with seven senior hires
Newmark has added seven senior hires to its UK valuation team.
