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• Aviva buys Old Street office for £25m

  Aviva Investors has bought an office on Old Street for £25m.

• Brunswick Property Partners spends £40m on two properties for workplace scheme

  Brunswick Property Partners (BPP) has acquired two properties for a combined £40m for its London workplace venture Akoya.

• Green light for urban forest scheme

  London’s first office building with an urban forest rooftop has been approved by planners.

• Propertyshe Perspectives: Guidance for office workers needed, new lease of life for Whiteleys, kick in the teeth for rural broadband, real estate’s carbon footprint, global connectivity

  This week we are trying to come to terms with the end of lockdown and the introduction of the new tiers set out in the Government’s Covid-19 Winter Plan. What seems to be missing is further guidance on when office workers can get back to the office.

• Revised plans for controversial Goodsyard scheme recommended for approval

  The Greater London Authority (GLA) has recommended that London mayor Sadiq Khan approve the revised plans for The Goodsyard, a controversial £900m mixed-use scheme in Shoreditch.

• Ask Real Estate secures £30m in investment for Newcastle development

  Ask Real Estate has secured around £30m in investment through Canada Life Asset Management for the development of One Strawberry Lane in St James in Newcastle city centre.

• ‘Severe shortage’ of Grade A office space in Glasgow

  Glasgow currently only has 6,200 sq ft of vacant Grade A office space in the city, according to research by CBRE.