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Aware Super’s UK property play cops a $35m cladding bill

Hans van Leeuwen

London | Aware Super’s $900 million foray into British build-to-rent housing has become tangled up in the UK’s post-Grenfell cladding crisis, with a tribunal this week slapping an £18 million ($35 million) costs order on Aware’s local partner, Get Living.

Aware bought a 22 per cent equity stake in Get Living last April, even as the company was embroiled in a dispute over how and when to pay for remediation works at the east London residential complex that was formerly the 2012 Olympics athletes’ village.

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Hans van Leeuwen covers British and European politics, economics and business from London. He has worked as a reporter, editor and policy adviser in Sydney, Canberra, Hanoi and London. Connect with Hans on Twitter. Email Hans at hans.vanleeuwen@afr.com

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