Finance
Dragonfly makes regional lending play
Property-focused short-and-medium-term lender Dragonfly has hired a Regional Business Development Manager to boost its capability outside of London and the South East.
UK’s bridging loan market triples in under four years
When provider West One started charting the scale of the UK's bridging loan market in 2011, gross annual lending of this type stood at a mere £0.8bn;
Candy and Inland Homes team up on acquisition drive
Specialist brownfield developer Inland Homes has joined forces with Christian Candy's CPC Group to acquire a number of sites across the South East.
Chelsea Barracks hit with £38m Stamp Duty bill
Project Blue Ltd, the Qatari government owned vessel for the Chelsea Barracks development in London, has been held to account to the tune of £38m after an HMRC tax tribunal upheld a legal ruling against …
Resi development financiers embrace risk but ‘too many lenders chasing the same deals’
Residential development lenders are "embracing more risk," says Knight Frank, as competition for high returns heats up
Scheme Players: How to form a successful joint venture
It seems as though most major property development projects now involve some form of joint venture. B
CML names new Chairman
The Council of Mortgage Lenders has called on Moray McDonald, head of personal and business banking products at the Royal Bank of Scotland, to take over as Chairman
What’s hot for 2015: Maida Vale for investors; Marylebone for owner-occupiers
London-based buying agency Black Brick is tipping Maida Vale as the investment hotspot to watch next year, although Marylebone should remain the go-to option for discerning owner-occupiers...
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Rising Stamp: Surveying the new SDLT landscape
The movement from a Stamp Duty slab tax to a graduated tax is a welcome move, says residential fund management outfit LCP on the first day of the new SDLT regime.
Autumn Statement: Stamp Duty hike for high-value homes
George Osborne rounded off this year's Autumn Statement with "a complete reform" of SDLT (which he called "one of our worst-designed and most damaging of all taxes"), ditching the slab structure in favour…
Autumn Statement: SDLT reform ‘overdue’ but will buyers at the top end ‘eventually take it on the chin’ or is it a ‘disaster for prime property sales’?
Most agree that some kind of stamp duty reform needed to happen, and the consensus is generally - although definitely not exclusively - positive
Crib Sheet: Autumn Statement 2015
This was a gloves off, political Autumn Statement in the run up to the 2015 election says Mishcon de Reya