April 20, 2026
British Land takeover of Life Science REIT completes
British Land's cash and share offer takeover of Life Science REIT has become effective with Life Science REIT to be re-registered as a private limited company.
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April 9, 2026OpenAI pauses UK data centre project over regulation concerns
OpenAI has paused its flagship UK data centre project.
April 7, 2026W. P. Carey buys 14 Western Canada auto dealerships in sale‑leaseback deal
Net lease real estate investment trust W. P. Carey bought 14 automotive dealership properties across Western Canada and is leasing back the properties, expanding its presence in single‑tenant commercial real estate tied to major operating businesses.
March 31, 2026Trump teases first look at presidential library in downtown Miami
President Donald Trump’s future library and museum is one step closer to becoming a reality after the first renderings of the tower were revealed this week.
March 31, 2026BlackRock and Greater Manchester Pension Fund team up to build £1 billion portfolio of NHS real estate
BlackRock funds and accounts and the Greater Manchester Pension Fund have created a joint venture to build a £1 billion portfolio of local healthcare facilities.
March 26, 2026Oscars relocation marks a high-profile win for downtown Los Angeles
A landmark deal to relocate Hollywood’s biggest night, the Oscars, to downtown Los Angeles could reshape one of the city’s most prominent entertainment districts.
March 26, 2026Overcoming the challenges of multistorey data centres
Exponential growth of AI, cloud and digital services is changing the data centre landscape. Increasing demand for data centres in urban areas is evident, as can be seen from Google’s new Waltham Cross facility and Segro’s planned £1 billion Park Royal data centre in London. Such a trend, coupled with the scarcity of suitable land for development with adequate access to power, fibre connections, and other utility services, is driving a shift from broad single-storey buildings towards compact, multistorey designs.
March 25, 2026Jeff Bezos becomes latest billionaire seeking to build AI data centers in space
Aeronautics firm Blue Origin, owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos, is seeking permission from the U.S. government to launch a network of more than 50,000 satellites designed to serve as an orbital data center that can support artificial intelligence workloads.
March 25, 2026'Stockroom' bolsters civic and cultural offer in Stockport centre
Stockroom, a 135,000-square-foot cultural, learning and community hub inside the 520,000-square-foot Merseyway Shopping Centre, has been a catalyst for footfall and economic uplift in Stockport town centre, winning it a CoStar Impact Award, handed out by a panel of independent judges.
March 25, 2026Google opens Waltham Cross Data Centre as part of £5 billion UK investment programme
Google’s newly opened data centre located in Waltham Cross, has been named Commercial Development of the Year for East of England in the CoStar Impact Awards, handed out by a panel of independent judges, as the firm forges ahead with its wider £5 billion UK investment programme.
March 20, 2026Crown Estate gets all-clear for life sciences makeover of former Oxford Debenhams
The Crown Estate’s plans to redevelop the former Debenhams in Oxford city centre, at 1-12 Magdalen Street, into an 100,000-square-foot home for science, innovation and technology businesses have been approved.
March 12, 2026Pritzker winner designed buildings that 'appear temporary, unstable, deliberately unfinished'
Smiljan Radić Clarke of Chile is the winner of this year's Pritzker Architecture Prize, an honor widely considered to be architecture's highest distinction, with the award's jury members touting his ever-changing design styles.
March 12, 2026Movies made beyond soundstages dominate Oscar best picture nominations
When it comes to this year's Academy Award nominees for best picture, soundstage real estate took a backstage to real-world shooting locations as varied as desert highways, ancient castles and logging camps.
February 11, 2026Plans for the redevelopment of Liverpool Street Station steam ahead as City of London gives nod
The City of London Corporation has given the green light for a redevelopment of London’s Liverpool Street Station, Britain’s busiest train station.
January 29, 2026UK commercial property market is on the up, RICS survey finds
The UK commercial property market remains subdued, but early signs of stabilisation are emerging, as sentiment improves modestly in occupier and investment markets, according to the RICS UK Commercial Property Monitor.
January 23, 2026The case for investing in self-storage as an offshoot from residential living
It’s not news that the self-storage sector is growing, with double-digit growth and new entrants being announced regularly.- January 8, 2026
KKR and Oak Hill Capital invest $2 billion into European data centre platform
KKR, a global investment firm, and Oak Hill Capital, a middle-market private equity firm, have invested a combined total of almost $2 billion in European data centre platform Global Technical Realty. 
December 24, 2025All's well that ends well: rollercoaster 2025 sets up industry for rejuvenated 2026
A year that began with high hopes for strong UK real estate activity had, by the time of the Mipim real estate conference in March, already become bogged down by concerns over global tariffs and economic uncertainty. It has only really began to show signs of sparking back into life after the government's much-delayed November Budget.
December 23, 2025Chiefs call audible, will move to Kansas after scoring $4 billion stadium deal
The NFL's Kansas City Chiefs are relocating from Missouri to Kansas after landing a $4 billion development deal anchored by a new domed stadium and training complex for the team.
