The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has launched a new global guide, Sustainability practice for surveyors, alongside its 2025 UN Global Compact Communication on Engagement report, as part ...
The English Devolution and Community Empowerment Act has introduced a ban on upwards-only rent reviews in new leases of business premises. In broad terms, this means that rent review clauses must ...
Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves has outlined the government's priorities for major regeneration across the country at the UKREiiF conference.
Latest figures announced by the government confirm there has been a 'tsunami' of business rates appeals against the 2023 Rating List, with Colliers saying it reveals a system “not fit for purpose” ...
The Climate Change Committee has published A Well-Adapted UK, a report setting out solutions to address the growing impacts of climate change in the UK.
The ban on upwards-only rent reviews marks a potentially profound shift in commercial leasing. Having underpinned income certainty and investment value across the UK property market, their removal ...
The UK's prime minister Sir Keir Starmer is fighting for his political life but the King's Speech, which outlines his government's legislative plans for the next year, took place as normal. It was ...
There has been a clear shift in the market's mood following the recent escalation of geopolitical tensions in the Middle East as UK real estate professionals say renewed uncertainty, rising bond ...
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 ...
Two weeks into the 2026 Rating List and we already find ourselves in a position that feels, at best, counterintuitive. In less than 12 months’ time, we will reach the valuation date for the 2029 ...
A new business rate cycle comes into effect tomorrow (1 April) across England, Scotland and Wales, the first revaluation to take place under the new three-yearly cycle.
Recent freedom of information disclosures provide a rare and quantified insight into how the government expects the 2026 business rates revaluation to unwind in England.
The government, the mayor of London, Tower Hamlets council and JPMorganChase are fine-tuning a business rates incentive package to ensure the US investment banking giant proceeds with plans for a £3 ...
Commercial real estate industry experts have welcomed the government's Future Homes Standard and Future Buildings Standard impacts assessment publication and a commitment to introducing the ...