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Morning briefing: FCA supporting SFO’s Home REIT investigation
QuotedData reports that the Financial Conduct Authority closed its own Home REIT inquiry to concentrate resources on supporting the Serious Fraud Office's continuing criminal investigation. The briefing cites an FCA spokesperson's comments to Citywire and notes that the SFO investigation involved six arrests earlier in 2026. Closing the FCA inquiry does not mean the separate criminal investigation has ended.
Elsewhere in the property briefing, Unite Group reported selling an academy school at London's Hawthorne House for £40.7 million. Unite said it remained on course for £300 million to £400 million in disposals during the year. That wider disposal figure is management's target, rather than proceeds already received.
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