The government has called for evidence to look at how to accelerate building in urban areas across the UK. As part of its brownfield-first approach to development, the government has announced plans ...

Law firm Forsters has appointed Victoria Towers as its new head of commercial real estate. Towers, a partner and co-head of the firm’s industrial and logistics team, will now take on leadership of ...

Indoor karting operator K1 Speed has agreed a deal to open a 90,000 sq ft flagship at Xsite Braehead in Renfrewshire. The £5.5m investment will deliver one of the longest indoor racing tracks in the ...

Parcel delivery company Evri is continuing on its acquisition spree, adding 163,423 sq ft to its growing portfolio of distribution hubs. The firm has agreed to take the space at Delin Property’s ...

Retail and leisure agency Lunson Mitchenall has promoted two former graduates to equity director. Head of restaurants and leisure Ruvan Sangra (pictured above, left) and leasing director Charlie Jacks ...

Barking & Dagenham Council has appointed David Harley as its new strategic director of inclusive growth and place. Harley moves over to the council from its urban regeneration arm Be First ...

Belgian healthcare REIT Aedifica has sold its 64-bed Blenheim Care Centre in West Ruislip, north-west London, for a residential redevelopment. The site has been bought by a private north London-based ...

Former Argent director of King’s Cross Robert Evans has been appointed as chief executive of the Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridgeshire.

Midlands-focused Real Estate Investors chief executive Paul Bassi has said the business is open to offers for corporate or portfolio deals as it seeks to accelerate its disposal strategy. Bassi said: ...

Pension funds Legal & General, PGGM and Nest have teamed up to build a £1bn private rented homes partnership.

MIX Manchester has signed Premier Inn to operate a 276-bedroom hotel within 400m of Manchester Airport’s terminals. Last month, the developer has launched a consultation on the £1bn proposals for MIX ...