Finance
Crib Sheet: 2015’s CGT for non-residents
HMRC has confirmed a few things about next year's imposition of Capital Gains Tax for non-residents
Balls announces mansion tax thresholds; admits he could be ‘a very, very unpopular man’ if Labour wins in May
"Of course Savills are going to try and scare everybody with a £50m house," said Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls as he outlined his ideas for mansion thresholds in Labour's proposed progressive tax on high-value …
110,000 ‘mansions’ would be caught in Labour’s proposed levy
110,000 homeowners - 86,000 of them in London - would have to pay Labour's mansion tax, says Zoopla.
Galliard and Cain Hoy’s £1bn JV creates London’s biggest house builder
An agreement between privately-owned developer Galliard Homes and new US private investment firm Cain Hoy Enterprises is set to create London's largest house builder, with a £3.4bn portfolio.
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‘Use the current economic sunshine’ before the next global slump in 2018 – Grosvenor
The UK is on track to be hit by another downturn in real estate markets in 2018, just after the US, claims Grosvenor's Group Research Director Graham Parry
A potted history of the mansion tax in quotes (2009-2015)
The idea of a Mansion Tax has been knocking around Westminster with intent for over five years now, since Vince Cable brewed up a scheme in 2009 to make taxation more fair...
LendInvest recruits mortgage veteran to run sales and marketing
Peer-to-peer property lending platform LendInvest has recruited an industry veteran as its new Head of Sales & Marketing
Middle Class Problems: The reverberations of a mansion tax
The reverberations of a mansion tax will be felt all the way down the property ladder, says Will Hollest, as he points out even more flaws in the latest set of plans to tax high value homes
New head of resi development for short-term lender
Bridging specialist Dragnofly Property Finance has recruited a new Head of Residential Development
MAB floats on AIM
Britain's biggest independent broker Mortgage Advice Bureau has floated on the AIM this morning, with full trading due to kick off on the 14th.
‘London’s property market has shifted in favour of buyers’ – Hanover Private Office
The focus of the capital's property market has shifted "from bubbles to cooling conditions," says multi-family office Hanover, as more vendors cut asking prices and price growth shifts from astronomical…
Dow Jones recategorises Real Estate; now viewed as a ‘distinct asset class’
The S&P Dow Jones Indices LLC - the world’s largest resource for index-based concepts, data and research - has decided to view Real Estate as a distinct asset class and give it its very own sector.