Real estate firms expect increased Canadian tariffs on some United States goods to raise construction costs across North America and lead to shifts in markets where occupiers lease industrial space.
A "fundamental shift" by government to transfer more power and resources to local leaders will help unlock economic growth in the regions, the Chancellor has argued.
The Court of Appeal’s ruling on "box shifting" could be just the start of a much wider crackdown on business rates mitigation, with councils now having broader rationale to challenge other forms of ...
Hundreds of thousands of businesses are at risk of misinterpreting Article 50 of the EU AI Act, with thousands in the property and rental living sector vulnerable, warn VerbaFlo, an AI residential ...
IM Properties' hopes of delivering a circa 2 million-square-foot logistics scheme in Northamptonshire have received a major boost after campaigners' attempts to overturn planning permission were ...
Mayors will be given access to income tax money raised in their communities for the first time as part of a devolution drive in an effort to help them build homes and drive growth.
A High Court judge has given travellers who set up an unauthorised camp on green belt land close to a village in Hertfordshire a month to vacate, in what could prove a test case decision on the ...
New York became the first state to pause the development of large new data centers, with several others considering similar action to study potential effects as projects proliferate nationwide in ...
Vanessa Hale, the chief executive of the UK's new lobby group for the real estate industry, believes it can facilitate the regeneration of towns and cities by bringing together the required "capital, ...
Keir Starmer's commitment to increase defence spending to circa £300 billion over the next four years is a major "signal" to the property and infrastructure sectors of potential opportunities, real ...
For years, the UK property market has waited for clarity from the government on Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards for non-domestic properties. Last month, we received some clarity, and relatively ...
In a "champagne supernova" of development, leaving the rest of the UK and Europe in its wake, Manchester is leading the charge for planned new buildings with height in excess of 100 metres.
The Quebec provincial government is under-collecting an estimated $1.3 billion per year in tax revenue tied to construction activity, according to a new report from Quebec Auditor General Christine ...
A Southern California city just passed the nation’s first permanent ban on data center development, but some builders are already working to get ahead of the pushback: They're pivoting investment ...
After many promises from successive governments to abolish "no fault" evictions, the use of section 21 notices to bring residential tenancies to an end was finally outlawed on 1 May 2026. Gone are ...
A ban on upward-only rent reviews is now law as the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act has received Royal Assent, a move that experts say could have a profound effect on the UK real ...
Death and taxes – the only two certainties in life, according to Benjamin Franklin. In the minds of some politicians you can add rent increases to that short list, which is probably why the ...
The debate around business rates and flexible workspace has re-emerged with renewed intensity, not because of new legislation but because of a shift in how existing law is being applied.
The founder of a coworking space who has warned his business could collapse over an “outrageous” backdated business rates bill, has been granted permission to apply for a Judicial Review of his case, ...
4 September 2026Opinion
