Ifeoluwa Taiwo

Hillview Real Estate and Sh.i.r. Shlomo, a subsidiary of Israel’s Shlomo Group, have acquired a multi-let office building in Leeds’ financial district from Ardstone Capital for £12.6m.

Helical has let a floor of The Tower, its mixed-use scheme at The Bower, Old Street in London’s Midtown, to digital financing platform Stenn Technologies.

Julie Hirigoyen, chief executive of the UK Green Building Council, tells Ifeoluwa Taiwo about its new 2025 strategy for the property sector and reveals what the government needs to do to close the policy gap.

In 2021, the Environment Agency issued a report, ‘Living Better with a Changing Climate’, warning that the UK was dangerously underprepared for the physical impacts of climate change that were already baked in, regardless of future emissions reductions on the road to net zero by 2050.

UK self-storage group Storage King and UK-focused real estate fund manager Moorfield Group have acquired Frome-headquartered self-storage operator Storagebase for £59m in a deal led by FRP Corporate Finance.

British Land has partnered with brasserie Revolve to open a restaurant at Broadgate, London.

The former John Lewis department store at 88 George Street in Aberdeen has hit the market.

Requirement for more EV charging points seen as good first step but developers may face ad.ditional costs

ABTA has sold the freehold interest in its former offices at 68-71 Newman Street, London to pension fund clients of CBRE Investment Management for a price understood to be over £18m.

McCarthy Stone has received £94m of funding from Homes England to develop 1,500 affordable shared-ownership retirement properties.

A new bridge-lending business, GRE Finance, has been launched with backing from specialist property funder ASK Partners.

Yeovil Hospital has opened an apartment complex to provide homes to frontline staff.

A report by property consultancy TFT shared exclusively with Property Week warns landlords may be putting investments at risk by just “blindly following building regulations” and failing to future proof assets and surpass building regulations.

Manchester Life Strategic Development Company has submitted a planning application for an urban mobility hub on behalf of Manchester City Council.

PVH Corp has signed a pre-let agreement to take space at a building in White City, London, according to the Evening Standard.