4/7/2026 1:41:11 PM Maples Teesdale appoints new partner to leading commercial real estate practice By Paul Burke Maples Teesdale, the leading specialist commercial real estate law firm in the UK, announces the promotion of Edward Bird to Partner....
4/1/2026 1:40:11 PM Smart glasses in court are not a smart move By Rosalind Cullis Smart glasses are normal looking eyewear which have tiny built in speakers, microphones and a camera. They act like an extension to your...
3/26/2026 5:09:09 PM Five themes shaping the conversation at MIPIM 2026 By Declan Power Dellah Gilbert Joanna Preece After a week of discussions, debates and big-picture thinking, five themes consistently rose to the top, each signalling where the real...
3/23/2026 3:42:44 PM Contractual Control Regulations 2026 By Fiona Larcombe The government has published regulations which will create a new register of “contractual control agreements” affecting land (the...
3/12/2026 10:30:40 AM Urban development – overcoming obstacles to development By John Bosworth Many proposed developments, especially those in dense urban environments, face the prospect of being blocked because the intended...
3/11/2026 1:49:40 PM Site Clearance – be careful of Biodiversity Net Gain implications, and more… By Diva Gaur Many landowners may have in their portfolio a plot of unused and overgrown land. It might have been planned as something like a...
2/23/2026 8:34:11 PM Student Accommodation: Top Priority, but Becoming More Selective By Diva Gaur Purpose Built Student Accommodation (PBSA) has been identified at the top of the list of priority sectors according to the responses to...
2/23/2026 1:52:38 PM PBSA: The Power of Place By Annie Sahakian Recent analysis by Sky Mapson of Maslow Capital highlights how the UK student accommodation market is no longer moving at one pace....
2/11/2026 11:17:12 AM Single Family Housing Summit 2026 By Alex Watkins Eleanor Crawford-Drake and I spent yesterday morning at Bisnow’s Single Family Housing Summit. Some of the main points we took away are:...
2/10/2026 6:53:39 PM Life Sciences Real Estate: Investor confidence is ‘quietly getting louder’ By Chris Xitsas While the last 18 months have seen a period of adjustment, there are growing signs that UK life sciences real estate is settling into a...
2/7/2026 11:51:37 PM CVA "exits" and liability for business rates By Tom Mills If a tenant in a CVA exits its premises and no longer trades, is it still liable for non-domestic rates? In short, yes, unless and until...
2/6/2026 3:11:06 AM Can I speak to the manager please? By Eleanor Crawford-Drake Hotel investors have long obsessed over location, brand and capital structure, but one factor is finally demanding equal billing: the...
2/6/2026 3:04:36 AM Modification and discharge of section 106 agreements: the law is not up to scratch By John Bosworth A recent appeal decision concerning an application to modify a section 106 agreement demonstrates just how hard it is to satisfy the...
2/3/2026 10:09:41 AM But Chat GPT told me I had a good claim.. By Claire Munn Recent press coverage would lead us to believe that AI will result in the loss of many jobs in the legal sector. There is no doubt that...
2/2/2026 2:11:37 AM Buying land? Get it in writing! By Rosalind Cullis To be valid, a contract for the sale or disposition of an interest in land must comply with the formal requirements in section 2 of the...
1/26/2026 9:33:09 AM Should we measure warehouses in cubic feet? By Charles Elgood In the last 10 years, the average height of I&L units has risen by over 40%. If you judge a unit by its area, that's a whole lot of...