Finance
Octopus & Homes England team up for £175m Greener Homes Alliance
The new Greener Homes Alliance "will provide access to funding and expertise to help developers ‘go green’ when making decisions for their developments."
Tenn Capital bags £300m funding facility for ‘aggressive scaling’
Guernsey-based short-term property lender Tenn Capital was set up in May by CEO Matt Watson, with Enness's Islay Robinson and Hugh Wade-Jones on board as Non-Exec Directors.
Developer secures £76m backing for west London scheme
Great Marlborough Estates announced the acquisition of Empire House, a ‘landmark’ site in Chiswick, just over a year ago.
Fortwell chief steps down
Dan Smith has resigned from the property development finance firm.
Another senior hire for CrowdProperty
Property finance platform poaches a Head of Finance from Weatherbys Bank.
The average Stamp Duty bill has escalated 490% in the last 25 years
Property price inflation has driven the average SDLT bill in England up from £601 in 1997 to £3,548 in 2021.
Pandora Papers: ‘It’s time to pursue lawyers and accountants who enable tax evasion’
"It’s fascinating that so many of these people in the public eye must have known that eventually their activities would become common knowledge, and yet they opted for offshore secrecy anyway," says…
‘Pandora Papers’ leak exposes more offshore London property deals
"Secret" owners of luxury homes in London have been revealed in a huge data leak, including details of a widely-reported Qatari-owned property on Cornwall Terrace.
Stamp Duty Refunds: Too good to be true?
Stamp Duty is complicated and sometimes reliefs are overlooked, say top lawyers writing for The Chartered Institute of Taxation - so it can be worth revisiting transactions in search of a rebate.
Mortgage approvals slip but remain above pre-pandemic levels
“After the roller-coaster ride of the stamp duty holiday, activity levels in the UK housing market will feel tame by comparison in the final months of this year," says Knight Frank research chief Tom…
Treasury publishes draft Residential Property Developer Tax legislation
Proposed new tax rates targeting major housebuilders are due to bee confirmed in the Autumn Budget.
Mortgage approvals fall again, but remain above pre-pandemic levels
UK borrowers repaid £1.4bn of mortgage debt in July; it's only the second time in a decade that the Bank of England's data has shown a net repayment.