The Subplot | Why the slow and steady Northern real estate market could be a winner

In its push to achieve housing targets, the government wants to lower the cost of CPOs – but will this well-trodden path be effective? Plus: the differing fortunes of speculative offices and data centres.

Despite delays to the promised government reforms on planning, housing minister Matthew Pennycook has outlined ambitions to bring back regional spatial strategies. Plus: rent controls and Manchester offices.

For a second consecutive year, the prolific regeneration company has teamed up with Place North to support and showcase its growing pipeline of transformational projects across the patch.