Finance
Century follows £100mn fund raise with ‘record’ week
Mayfair-based lender notched up £32.5mn of deals involving prime assets in London and the country.
Mortgage approvals rise for the first time since August
But approvals are still running a third below their pre-pandemic average.
The Register of Overseas Entities seems to be working, as UK property deals involving tax havens fall
New research suggests improved transparency in the property market means 'Londongrad' is losing its appeal to corrupt money...
Lendinvest opens-up resi mortgage products
Lloyds-backed tech-driven mortgage platform has formally entered into the UK’s £1.2 trillion homeowner mortgage market.
Interest rates rise again, to 4.25%: Industry reactions
The Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee has raised the base rate for the 11th month in a row.
Precede Capital adds two new faces
Real estate development lender has recruited a new Associate Director from Green Street, and a Senior Associate from Reed Smith.
Currency matters: The banking sector sneezed, but no one seemed to catch a cold. Yet.
David Huggett updates on the latest movements on the world's financial markets, and how the recent turmoil might affect international investors in the UK...
11 key takeaways: The Budget 2023 for HNWIs & business owners
Required Reading: Mishcon de Reya provides an essential briefing on the key announcements in yesterday's Budget statement, highlighting 11 need-to-know policy and tax changes...
‘We wanted to see more’ Vs. ‘Thank goodness the Chancellor decided to leave the property market well alone’: Housing industry reactions to the 2023 Spring Budget
A 'missed opportunity' or is 'no action the best stance'? Here's what the property industry makes of Jeremy Hunt's latest round fiscal policy updates...
Budget 2023: Chancellor keeps hands off the housing sector
Property was largely absent from Jeremy Hunt's Spring Budget statement.
‘Bank of Mum & Dad’ shelled out almost £9bn to first-time property buyers in 2022
Nearly half of all mortgaged first-time buyers relied on family money to get on the property ladder last year - and Savills expects this proportion to rise to three in five as Help to Buy ends.
Budget Explainer: Here are some ways to read between the lines on what’s being reported
Simon Wren-Lewis, an Economics Professor at the University of Oxford, explores how media coverage of government finances and Budget statements can be confusing, and often misleading - highlighting some…