Recent Developments in the Competition Authorities’ Activities in the Real Estate Sector in the EU and UK

In recent years, the competition authorities of the Member States of the European Union and the UK have handed down a number of decisions involving the real estate sector. These decisions have addressed both anti-competitive practices and merger control issues. While some of them are “textbook” cases dealing with practices already widely apprehended by the competition authorities such as traditional price-fixing or bid-rigging, a number of decisions have dealt with emerging or rarely