Main image: Labour leader Keir Starmer with Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves (image via @Keir_Starmer)
Britain’s HNWIs lean towards voting Labour
27% of wealthy voters are planning to back Kier Starmer's party at the next General Election, according to a survey of HNWIs, compared to just 16% for the Conservatives and 15% for the Liberal Democrats.
What to read next
‘Proud to pay more’: Most HNWIs want higher wealth taxes, say millionaires
'The true measure of a society can be found, not just in how it treats its most vulnerable, but in what it asks of its wealthiest members,' say Patriotic Millionaires Marlene Engelhorn and Stefanie Bremer.
Majority of housebuilders ‘would like to see Labour win at next election’
Some 70% of residential property developers surveyed by Knight Frank would rather see Keir Starmer in Downing Street than a Tory or Lib Dem leader.
HNWIs ‘would be prepared to pay a premium for staying in the UK’
'It's absolutely true that those with the broadest shoulders should bear the greatest burden,' says lobbyist Leslie McLeod-Miller of Foreign Investors for Britain.
Most read
Inside St John’s Wood Square: Sales launch at ‘once-in-a-generation’ super-prime project
Portia Fox-designed show apartment unveiled as long-awaited transformation of historic NW8 barracks site hits the market, with pricing revealed for the first time.
Forbes-backed brokerage adds another big name to PCL line-up
Latest Founder Partner brings nearly four decades of top-end agency experience to Martin Bikhit’s new venture.
Property billionaire swaps Holland Park for Monaco
David Reuben becomes the latest big name to leave the UK, joining a Monaco set now controlling some £77bn of Rich List wealth.
RFR brings in super-prime specialist as MD
Former Knight Frank partner joins Chelsea-based buying firm.
Guardian: Why are London mansions struggling to sell?
LonRes chief says there is some ‘unbelievably good value’ in the capital's prime neighbourhoods - but warns the market has yet to find its floor.
London Square owner racks up £1bn-worth of Abu Dhabi sales in a week
International buyers drive bumper sales tally for Aldar across two waterfront launches.
Record transfer window kicks off super-prime rental bonanza
Savills handled more than 20 player and manager relocations over the summer, including a string of deals in Cheshire at more than £30k a month.
Martin Kemp Design takes up residence near Buckingham Palace
Luxury design practice moves into new Buckingham Place studio, with a run of prime resi projects underway and a growing furniture range.
Super-prime London scheme lands double win at global branded residence awards
Raffles-branded project takes European and urban titles at inaugural awards programme for booming sector.
Bugatti teams up with Rhodium for global branded resi drive
Luxury car marque brings Dean Main's outfit in to build on resi projects in Dubai and Miami.
LATEST ARTICLES
Have PCL property values turned a corner?
Fresh Savills data suggests the pace of decline is easing across prime markets, as buyers & sellers become 'more aligned on price.'
Major developer calls time on London as viability ‘fundamentally broken’
Economic rewards for taking development risk in the capital have 'evaporated,' says housebuilding giant boss.
Tories’ inheritance tax sums come under scrutiny
Analysis suggests proposed reforms could cost almost twice as much as claimed - and put a sizeable dent in the number of £1mn-plus homes coming to market.
Sotheby’s International Realty rolls out 50th birthday marketing pageant
Luxury property broker brand marks milestone anniversary with an ad campaign, a coffee-table book and a big agent gathering.
Chestertons names new short-lets boss
London agency reports growing demand from owners whose properties have been sticking around on the sales market.