MORNING NEWS: PRS portfolio talks, failed deal fall-out and Labour’s housing green paper

In the news this morning, US build-to-rent giant Greystar is in talks to buy a PRS portfolio which would mark its first foray outside London. Click on the EG story to find out who the acquisitive investor is talking to and what is on the table. Elsewhere, the broadsheets cover the collapsed tie-up between Hammerson and intu with reports that Hammerson is under fire and both are facing multi-million pound bills. Also today, Labour is going to announce a new 50-point green paper on housing which includes proposals to build a million “genuinely affordable” homes over a decade. NEWS ROUND-UP: Failure to be flexible will cost landlords Greystar in talks on £1bn Inhabit BTR portfolio Radius Data Exchange: the future of real estate data Investors buying properties to rent boost profits at Telford Homes Warehouse landlord Segro taps into rise of online retail Intu jilted after being led up the aisle by rival UK house prices up 4.4% but economists warn slowdown is underway London skyscrapers top 500 Labour plans 100,000 homes a year Criminal landlords should have their properties seized, say MPs Buyers in despair at badly built new homes