Editorial Director @newsgreenstreet (formerly React News). Former Head of Content @estatesgazette, @recapital & @propertyweek david.hatcher@reactnews.com
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Apollo-backed listed firm’s €680m portfolio in play…
Exclusive: Under pressure German listed firm to kick off strategic review | @hatcherdavid
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Could you *really* not bring yourself to credit us Peter?! 🙄
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Jo McNamara is to be appointed chief executive of British Land. McNamara is currently executive vice president and head of Europe and Asia Pacific at Oxford Properties.
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Scoop: @BritishLandPLC has selected a new CEO.
On our shortlist too when we suggested a list of names at the start of the year. We wrote:
"Likeable and experienced, would go down a storm with the public markets... but probably out of reach for BL."
As it turns out...
Exclusive: British Land picks new chief executive | @hatcherdavid
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Mar 25
Jane Street agrees huge City leasing deal in latest sign of recovery in square mile's office market
Scoop via @JamesDBuckley
Exclusive: Jane Street Capital eyes 500,000 sq ft London HQ move | @JamesDBuckley
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Mar 23
Scoop: US investment manager taps banks for listing of a £1.2bn BTR portfolio across UK and Ireland.
If it gets away it would be the largest London-listed residential REIT by market cap, eclipsing Grainger.
Roadshow to investors started today
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Exclusive: US investor plots IPO for prime £1.2bn build-to-rent portfolio | @AlexanderCPeace @hatcherdavid
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Exclusive: All eyes on Frankfurt's €850m Opernturm as exclusivity clock ticks | @JulieCruz_LDN @hatcherdavid @michaelminarzik
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Exclusive: Eastdil agrees blockbuster £900m sale | @ChrisReactNews @hatcherdavid
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Mar 11
🚨SCOOP: The owners and management of Eastdil Secured have agreed a $1.2bn (£900m) sale of the business 🚨
The buyer is one not many would have seen coming…
Story with the brilliant @ChrisReactNews
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Exclusive: Mirastar makes move on France | @hatcherdavid
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Jan 28
Here's why British Land felt it was time to pounce for the beleaguered REIT ⬇️
Analysis: Five reasons why British Land is buying Life Science REIT | @hatcherdavid
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Chief executives seeking to make sense of President Trump’s strategy are turning to his 1987 book, The Art of The Deal.
But perhaps an alternative guide could be Barbarians at The Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco...
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Exclusive: Morgan Stanley JV closes in on blockbuster €430m Paris hotel sale | @hatcherdavid
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Green Street News takes a look at how the REIT performed under Simon Carter's leadership and where it could be headed next
Analysis: British Land under Carter – how did he do? | @hatcherdavid
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Jan 11
Chief executive of British Land Simon Carter has quit the FTSE 100 REIT to lead a 100m sq ft pan-European platform
Exclusive: Simon Carter to leave British Land | @hatcherdavid
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8 Dec 2025
All change at the top at one of European real estate private equity's biggest real estate investors.
Another great scoop from @ChrisReactNews
8 Dec 2025
Exclusive: KKR appoints new co-heads for European real estate business | @ChrisReactNews
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6 Dec 2025
Cattle perform alchemy. They convert grass (inedible to humans) into:
- Meat, milk, butter, cheese
- Tallow, leather, bone tools
- Manure for fertilizer
This transformation built civilizations.
Humans can't eat grass. Grass grows on 70% of agricultural land.
Without ruminants, that land is useless for food.
The anti-cattle narrative ignores this.
"Land used for cattle should grow crops!"
65% of cattle grazing land is marginal terrain unsuitable for crops. Too steep, rocky, dry, poor soil.
You cannot grow soy on Scottish highlands. You can graze cattle.
Cattle aren't competing with crops. They're utilizing land that can't grow crops.
Historical civilizations that thrived all utilized ruminants:
- Nomadic herders (Mongols, Bedouins)
- Pastoral societies (Maasai, Plains Indians)
All converted marginal land into nutrition.
Modern policy wants to remove cattle, "rewild" land, import food from industrial agriculture.
Less efficient, not more.
Using cattle to convert grass to food on land that can't grow crops is optimal resource use.
Leaving land idle while importing Amazon soy is environmental destruction.
The grass-to-nutrition conversion is irreplaceable. Plant agriculture can't do this.
Humans evolved eating ruminants that converted grass to meat.
Not eating soybeans from cleared rainforest.
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2 Dec 2025
Huge scoop from @AlexanderCPeace who reveals where Billingsgate and Smithfield markets are headed to...
2 Dec 2025
Exclusive: City of London targets Royal Docks for historic meat and fish markets | @AlexanderCPeace
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Exclusive: Bill Hughes to “step back” at L&G | @hatcherdavid
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6 Nov 2025
Really interesting move from Brookfield - it is launching a new platform in the UK student market, which is in large part in response to increasing concerns about affordability around the sector
6 Nov 2025
Exclusive: Brookfield takes first step to create its next UK student platform | @hatcherdavid
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