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✨ Wondering what's next for your career in real estate? ✨ Register for EG's Real Estate Futures event on Tuesday 17th September to discover how to elevate your career with the best in the business! Hear from: - Phyllis Agbo, senior development manager, Stories - Gafar Fashola, chair of the BPF Futures Advisory Board - Susan Freeman 🎤🎧, real estate partner, Mishcon de Reya LLP - Kathryn Jump, partner and living sector co-head, Shoosmiths - Vanessa Simms, CFO, Landsec - Joanna Josefina Thomas, courage & impact specialist, Ginger Leadership Communications Guests will learn: - Effective networking. - How to make your CV stand out. - How to build your personal brand. - How the biggest names in real estate got their big break. - How our seven Future Leaders will change the future of real estate. - Plus much more Register now: https://bit.ly/3KkHFu2 Future Leaders programme partners CBRE, Clyde & Co, Knight Frank, Landsec and Nuveen, a TIAA company   Real Estate Futures partners British Land, GIA Surveyors, JLL, Maples Teesdale LLP, RICS, Shoosmiths and University College of Estate Management #EGFutureLeaders #RealEstateFutures Real Estate Futures #careers #careertips #jobsearchtips #careersadvice #SOIRE #StartingOutinRealEstate

Laurence Kemball-Cook, founder of Pavegen, started his company with just £5,000 from a design award and has grown it to include over 200 projects in 30 countries. With more than 1,500 investors and a contact book including musician and serial solar entrepreneur Akon, football legend Pelé, pop superstar and global innovator will.i.am, and former UK prime minister, David Cameron, he’s an expert in building strong networks. Join Kemball-Cook, a clean tech pioneer and 2016 EG Awards Rising Star, for an exclusive networking masterclass at our Real Estate Futures event next month. Don’t miss this chance to improve your networking skills alongside Gafar Fashola and Susan Freeman 🎤🎧 in the session 'Constructing Connections: Networking in Real Estate. Register for free here: https://bit.ly/3KkHFu2   Future Leaders programme partners CBRE, Clyde & Co, Knight Frank, Landsec and Nuveen, a TIAA company   Real Estate Futures partners British Land, GIA Surveyors, JLL, Maples Teesdale LLP, RICS, Shoosmiths and University College of Estate Management   Ginger Leadership Communications   #EGFutureLeaders #RealEstateFutures #RealEstateCareers

If you've been wondering why we've returned to the Ham Yard Hotel in London for this November’s ESG Summit. It isn't just because we loved the delicious food and the retro lighting! We’ve chosen the Ham Yard Hotel as it strives to reduce its environmental impact through a number of initiatives such as solar panels, a green roof terrace with vegetable garden and beehives. So if you want to discuss how the built environment can help to lower emissions and more, join us on 5 November.  Explore the agenda here: https://bit.ly/3LFSXK6 Book your ticket today and save £45 on the standard ticket (£195): https://bit.ly/3WkoXJZ Bates Wells Derwent London Evelyn Partners JLL Shoosmiths #ESGSummit #Sustainability #ESG #CarbonFootprint #carbonoffset #protectourplanet

Here’s your daily round-up of the latest news and views from EG. 🍗 Your feature read this Friday – sorry, FRYday – takes a look at the US fried chicken chains hunting for UK sites. For newcomers like Chick-fil-A Restaurants and Bonchon, the moves position the UK as their “gateway” to Europe, says Simon Chaplin, head of restaurants at Christie & Co. Catherine Stevenson, cross-border retail and leisure associate at Cushman & Wakefield, adds: “Despite the competitive nature of the fast-food market, there are still opportunities for chicken brands in the UK.” 🍟 Established fast-food chains are hungry too. McDonald's plans to invest £1bn in more than 200 new restaurants in the UK by 2027. The company outlined its ambitions, which it said will create more than 24,000 new jobs, in a report to mark its 50th anniversary in the UK. 📉 Troubled investment firm Home REIT is putting its proposed wind-down to a shareholder vote. It said last month that having been unable to refinance its existing debt with Scottish Widows, a managed wind-down and sell-off of assets was in the best interests of shareholders. Today the company has published a circular with details of proposed changes to its investment policy that would effectively implement a managed wind-down. A general meeting will be held on 16 September. JLL and Allsop LLP will manage disposals. 👨💼 👩💼 And a survey of more than 750 Gen Z and Millennials across the UK on workstyle preferences by CBRE found that aspirations differed based on gender, with a higher proportion of men than women wanting to become leaders at both business department and C-Suite level. EG editor Samantha McClary has some thoughts – join the debate here https://lnkd.in/eHYEeXVf 🗞 There’s also news on a new co-living scheme in Tower Hamlets, a fresh tenant at a Helical plc tower, and a looming approval for a huge Whitechapel life sciences cluster. All this and more here. https://lnkd.in/e3rG8Y4m

Here’s your daily round-up of the latest news and views from EG. 🍗 Your feature read this Friday – sorry, FRYday – takes a look at the US fried chicken chains hunting for UK sites. For newcomers like Chick-fil-A Restaurants and Bonchon, the moves position the UK as their “gateway” to Europe, says Simon Chaplin, head of restaurants at Christie & Co. Catherine Stevenson, cross-border retail and leisure associate at Cushman & Wakefield, adds: “Despite the competitive nature of the fast-food market, there are still opportunities for chicken brands in the UK.” 🍟 Established fast-food chains are hungry too. McDonald's plans to invest £1bn in more than 200 new restaurants in the UK by 2027. The company outlined its ambitions, which it said will create more than 24,000 new jobs, in a report to mark its 50th anniversary in the UK. 📉 Troubled investment firm Home REIT is putting its proposed wind-down to a shareholder vote. It said last month that having been unable to refinance its existing debt with Scottish Widows, a managed wind-down and sell-off of assets was in the best interests of shareholders. Today the company has published a circular with details of proposed changes to its investment policy that would effectively implement a managed wind-down. A general meeting will be held on 16 September. JLL and Allsop LLP will manage disposals. 👨💼 👩💼 And a survey of more than 750 Gen Z and Millennials across the UK on workstyle preferences by CBRE found that aspirations differed based on gender, with a higher proportion of men than women wanting to become leaders at both business department and C-Suite level. EG editor Samantha McClary has some thoughts – join the debate here https://lnkd.in/eHYEeXVf 🗞 There’s also news on a new co-living scheme in Tower Hamlets, a fresh tenant at a Helical plc tower, and a looming approval for a huge Whitechapel life sciences cluster. All this and more here. https://lnkd.in/e3rG8Y4m

Here’s your daily round-up of the latest news and views from EG. 🏢 A rush of deals in London’s Square Miles means the capital’s office leasing market has posted its highest number of quarterly deals since Q3 2023, with 489 businesses signed new leases. The City swept up 54% of leasing deals in the second quarter, according to Devono, raking in a total of 1.7m sq ft of leases, a third more than the previous quarter. Tech-focused tenants drove the demand, and accounted for two of three “mega deals” for more than 100,000 sq ft. 🏗 The controversy over Marks and Spencer’s plans to demolish and redevelop its 1920s building near Marble Arch continue. SAVE Britain's Heritage, a campaigner for historic buildings, has urged communities secretary Angela Rayner to reject the scheme in an open letter alongside the Architects’ Journal. “The grounds for refusing the scheme have only grown in the three years since M&S made its planning submission, and there is now an unanswerable case for the new government to act in accelerating the industry’s shift towards reusing, repurposing and extending buildings instead of demolishing and wasting them,” the letter said. “Make no mistake: M&S Oxford Street is a test case.” 🏫 And the owner of a famous Glasgow property most recently home to Royal Bank of Scotland has plans to turn it into student accommodation. 250 St Vincent Street, built in 1878, was originally the MacLean’s Hotel and then the Windsor Hotel, before being turned into offices in the late 1980s. RBS took the space but left most of it in 2015, and it has been vacant since 2018. The building has planning permission to be turned back into a hotel, but fresh plans are now underway to redevelop it as student housing. 🗞 There’s also news on a new Canterbury tale from Persimmon Homes, talks between Swedish hotel operator Pandox and Starwood Capital Group over a portfolio of London aparthotels, and a thank you to Taylor Swift from Travelodge Hotels Limited for helping half-year revenue to rise. All this and more here. https://lnkd.in/ec8KtDyz

Good morning. Here’s your daily round-up of the latest news and views from EG, all perfectly curated to set you up for the day ahead. A quick tot up of the number of beds – residential, student and hotel – that either got the go ahead or were recommended for approval yesterday and this morning should be music to the new Labour government’s ears. More than 5,500 new beds will be built across the UK and Ireland, according to the EG news stories listed on your MORNING NEWS alert today, with more added to the total if we include the flurry of capital that is backing new growth, particularly in the student accommodation sector. Leading the way in volume of new beds is Manchester, which next week is set to give the go ahead to a five-building scheme from RENAKER, which will deliver some 2,388 homes in a £570m project, and to developer Northside, which has plans for a 34-storey, 251-bedroom aparthotel in the city. Belfast is also in favour of more beds, Glasgow wants the taxman out and more students in, while planners in Milton Keynes have told Packaged Living to deliver its BTR scheme in the town. Not that planning permissions have helped residential developer Watkin Jones Group, which this morning warned that a slowdown in deals would hit its numbers this year. Elsewhere, international hotel chain Hyatt Hotels Corporation is selling out of its owned hotels and continuing its growth through an “asset-light” strategy. The group has banked $1bn from the sale of a giant hotel in Orlando, Florida, and is reinvesting cash in buying the iconic Standard hotel brands. The circa $330m deal will see it take charge of The Standard in London’s King’s Cross and 21 other hotels around the world. For those of you looking for a big read this morning, delve into our look at how the growth of artificial intelligence is likely to affect the office leasing market. What will it do to occupier demand as businesses adopt it? And what will growth from the AI firms themselves look like? Insights aplenty from Savills, CBRE boss Bob Sulentic and Newmark chief Barry Gosin. And just because this MORNING NEWS wrap writer loves a little bit of the LEGO Group and because it is August. News broke yesterday that the toy brick maker has agreed terms to open a major new hub in Copenhagen. The circa 300,000 sq ft The Stamp building, close to Copenhagen train station, will provide workspace for as many as 1,500 staff. The hub will be Lego’s fifth around the world, joining Boston in the US, Singapore, Shanghai and London. Chief executive Niels B. Christiansen said the hub would be fitted with world-class, accessible facilities that foster collaboration, creativity and playfulness. “It is important for the Lego Group to have inspiring workplaces in the best locations to continue to attract the right talent,” he said. All that and so much more in your EG MORNING NEWS ⬇ ⬇ ⬇ https://lnkd.in/ey-5P-3U

What impact is AI going to have on the office leasing market? How will the utilisation of AI affect the physical workspace and what will the growth in AI firms mean for take up? Tim Burke and Dominic Plaskota gather insights from Savills, CBRE and Newmark to dive deeper. Read more below and share your thoughts in the comments. #ai #offices #realestate #cre #property #tech #insight https://lnkd.in/eNKnQX93

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INSIGHT: Investment in the UK’s purpose-built student accommodation market helped activity in Europe’s broader residential markets hit a two-year high in the second quarter of the year. Regional living investment leapt by almost 60% quarter-on-quarter and 17% year-on-year during the second-quarter to €13.9bn (£11.8bn), said JLL in a new report. The agency cited “renewed strength” in UK PBSA and German multifamily as well as continued increases in sectors such as co-living and single family. With €4.7bn invested, the UK accounted for a third of the regional total, up by 35% annually, followed by Germany at €3.1bn. Dive into the data ⬇️⬇️⬇️ https://lnkd.in/eEJ7YeUA