Finance
Vancouver just hit foreign buyers with a new tax; here’s what happened next…
Locals and foreigners alike have "stopped pursuing deals" as the market reacts to the levy
Blackstone fills last two spaces in the NCP carpark race
Just two players are left battling it out for the £500m fleet of properties
Treasury pushes on with plan to abolish non-dom status and charge IHT on enveloped property
The government is pushing ahead with reforms to non-dom tax policy initially announced in George Osborne's Summer 2015 Budget, launching another consultation despite some mutterings that it might all…
Lender teams up with online auction house to pre-qualify lots for finance
Trumpeted as "an industry first"
Central London’s ‘new-build crisis’: Over-supply and falling values are ‘a major concern’
Demand seems to be drying up for new-build apartments in central London as planning pipelines balloon, reports investment house London Central Portfolio, with a worsening case of over-supply - which the…
Learning Potential: Edinburgh, Bristol & Brighton named UK’s ‘most lucrative’ University cities
Edinburgh offers the best prospects in the UK for those looking to invest in student accommodation, according to new research by Chestertons.
Fortwell brings on two new senior players to the development finance team
High-value short-term real estate lender Fortwell Capital has created and filled a new Head of Development Finance role, and recruited a new Senior Analyst to the development finance team.
Exclusive Pictures: £18.8m show flat on Grosvenor Square goes crowdfunding
Fresh from raising £1m in just eight days to fund a renovation project on Eaton Square, new high-end property crowdfunding platform CapitalRise has gone even more up-market with its second investment…
Crowdfunded Eaton Square development raises full £1m in just eight days
CapitalRise has already closed its first deal
The Rain in Spain: European decision bad news for holiday home owners
Owners to sacrifice the money they unfairly paid on their mortgages to bailout the country's ailing banks
Vancouver brings in 15% non-resident tax to put the brakes on the property market
The British Columbia Government in Canada has rubber-stamped a 15% levy on foreign buyers of Vancouver property, in a bid to thwart spiralling house prices - but it's given the industry just eight days'…
Chinese buyer enquiries ‘up 30-40%’ post-Brexit
No 1 Chinese property portal Juwai.com has also sent in some useful post-Brexit observations.