EG’s must reads: 6-10 January

Here’s a wrap-up of some of the top stories on EG from the past week. General Projects is under offer to acquire the mixed-use Regents House, N1, owned by Royal Bank of Scotland. The developer is understood to have offered around £40m for the asset, a discount on the previous asking price of £60m.General Projects banking on Islington office deal Queen Mary BioEnterprises Innovation Centre has chosen Cavell Street in Whitechapel for its incubator hub. The proposed facility, spanning 37,000 sq ft, forms part of the wider redevelopment of 100-136 Cavell Street, E1, being brought forward by Lateral in a joint venture with HIG.Lateral strikes prelet at Whitechapel’s life sciences cluster Commercial bank Handelsbanken has agreed a lease at Woolgate at 25 Basinghall Street, EC2, which is being refurbished by development manager Stanhope in partnership with Woolgate Exchange Unit Trust.Handelsbanken signs at Stanhope’s Woolgate London & Regional Properties has filed plans with the London Borough of Southwark for a 1,400-bed student accommodation-led mixed-use scheme. The 250,000 sq ft Skipton House on London Road, SE1, has been vacant since the Department of Health vacated it when its lease expired in September 2022.London & Regional plans 1,400-bed PBSA scheme in Southwark A report from global health think tank the UCL Institute of Health Equity, sponsored by Legal & General, has called for health and wellbeing to be placed at the centre of housing strategy if the government is serious about creating an equitable UK.Does real estate hold the key to fixing the UK’s health crisis?We survived until 2025, now it is time to thrive Other stories you mustn’t miss: Tri7 plans to make unloved offices sing and danceDemand Barometer: What occupiers want – December 2024Lambeth launches £250m development procurementQatari firm gets approval for Oxford Street retail revampSavills shakes up industrial and logistics leadershipEuropean office sector woes ‘overplayed’£20bn of private capital waiting to invest in social housingOriginal ‘yimbyism manifesto’ republished by IEA