Finance
Brookfield takes a majority stake in Oaktree
Major real estate investors combine forces in $4.7bn deal.
Surveying the state of the buy-to-let finance market
Buy-to-let investors need to be more pro-active than ever in order to get the most out of a property portfolio, writes Islay Robinson, CEO of Enness Group, in an in-depth survey of the UK's BtL scene.
‘Exceptional uplift in client demand’ prompts property finance firm to boost HNW team
One77 Mortgages has expanded its in-house high net worth and specialist lending team.
Deadline looms for client money protection regs
Reminder: Letting agents have until 1st April to sign up to a government-approved CMP scheme - or face fines of up to £30,000.
Top Swiss private bank turns to direct real estate investments
Pictet Group has launched a new fund to invest in property assets - including residential - across Europe; Starwood's Zsolt Kohalmi has been recruited to run the show.
Westcombe secures £16.7m for West London resi projects
Family-run developer will use capital from OakNorth Bank to fund two resi schemes, in Isleworth and Northwood.
The number of £2m+ homes owned by companies has fallen by 10%
Tax changes have pushed more owners to de-envelope properties, says Boodle Hatfield.
Average mortgage payments as a proportion of income have dropped from 43% in 2008 to 31% in 2018
'Owning a home with a mortgage now more affordable than 10 years ago', according to mortgage firm Private Finance, despite house prices soaring by 29%.
High-end property crowdfunding platform looks for investment
Luxury property crowdfunding platform Capitalrise is listing itself on investment platform Seedrs.
Surveying the shape of Britain’s development finance market in 2019
'If the figures add up, there is finance available', says Enness Group's CEO Islay Robinson - despite current economic uncertainty and the UK's development finance scene having seen some big shifts in…
Home-mover & buy-to-let lending falls as remortgaging booms
10.8% more homeowner remortgages were completed in 2018 than in 2017, says UK Finance, while 11.5% fewer new buy-to-let and 1.9% fewer new home-mover mortgages went through.
Wealth taxes are back in fashion – but they’re still a terrible idea
'There is simply no escaping the fact that wealth is far more difficult to tax than income,' argues Jan Zeber in The Spectator.