MORNING NEWS: Scrambles and sunny-side up

In the news this morning, intu’s planned trading update gets the once over after it was brought forward a week. The general consensus was that the bullish update set out to defend intu’s portfolio of shopping centres and reassure the market as it scrambles to save its planned £3.4bn tie-up with Hammerson. Elsewhere, a rare sunny day dawned on the high street with both Primark and JD Sports reporting positive results. NEWS ROUND-UP: Is your city the most resilient in the UK? Clarion chief exec joins CBRE affordable project Radius Data Exchange: the future of real estate data JD and Primark prove you can still be a winning retailer if you’re good at it Jamie Oliver’s Australian restaurant group goes into administration First-time buyers boost mortgages Landlords diversify portfolios to beat property tax reform Intu critics ‘are making things up’, says CEO David Fischel M&S to close warehouse site putting 450 jobs in jeopardy Record level of over-55s use equity release to cash in on their homes