Finance
“Good Parents” now make up 29% of buy-to-let market
A new report by the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) has flagged up a wave of "Learner Landlords", who have entered the UK buy-to-let market on the back of recent tough economic times.
Where is Kensington’s One Hyde Park?
The lack of decent schemes in W8 has not gone unnoticed by the capital's army of canny developers. Camilla Dell investigates the new crop of prime projects vying to tempt the Knightsbridge crowd..
Cordea Savills closes resi development fund with £200m
Cordea Savills has closed its Prime London Residential Development Fund having bagged over £200m.
Merger & Acquisitions: Northacre teams up to expand PCL pipeline
Battersea-based developer Northacre Plc is about to embark on a summer spending spree, after announcing a tie-up with a major Abu Dhabi-based investment firm
Succession planning up in the heir for most HNW families
With a remarkable sense of timing (you may have heard some whispers of a Royal baby recently) Coutts has done some in-depth research into the inheritance and succession plans of Britain's high net worth…
Grosvenor shakes on major Belgravia scheme
Grosvenor has just announced a 50:50 joint venture partnership to redevelop a key site opposite the gardens of Buckingham Palace
Santander consolidates intermediary brands
Santander has scooped all its intermediary product brands together under a new umbrella brand: Santander for Intermediaries
Vive Londres! French buyers head East
Did you know the French population in London has increased by 75% over the last ten years? The new Residential Research Director of Hamptons International, Fionnuala Earley, investigates French buying …
Scotland’s stamp duty revolution could catch on…
It's possible - likely, even - that the whole UK stamp duty system will be overhauled in the wake of Scottish changes to the system, claims The Telegraph
HMRC scuppers £135m SDLT avoidance scheme
A tax tribunal has ruled against a Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) avoidance scheme reportedly used in the purchase of Chelsea Barracks
Readies Sorted: Walker Crips launches UK’s first regulated bridging fund
Wealth and investment manager, Walker Crips, has just announced the launch date for what it claims to be the UK's first regulated bridging finance investment fund.
Home Office puts Grade I Jacobean palace up for sale
One of the country's most important Jacobean palaces has just hit the market in Hampshire