Finance
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.
Domvs London announces joint venture and US expansion
Luxury developer teams up with New York-based investment boutique Junius Real Estate Partners
Irwin Mitchell boosts HNW offering with two new acquisitions
HNW advisory Berkeley Law and its separate resi property and conveyancing business, Berkeley Hurrell, have been snapped up by legal services giant Irwin Mitchell.
Bridging industry ‘sheds volatility’ as short term lending grows
The bridging loan industry is coming of age, overturning a pretty volatile infancy to grow at a fairly consistent 25%-ish rate since the middle of last year, claims West One Loans in its Bridging Index.
On the long-term performance of residential property
House price growth in many countries exceeds growth across a range of global asset classes, notes CBRE in its latest Global Living report.
House prices will take five years to ‘even catch up with their pre-credit crunch level’ – LCP
Following up on its cutting down of the the most recent Land Registry HPI stats, which showed a 0.
£105bn Chinese investment will be ‘a game-changer’ for UK real estate and infrastucture
The scale and scope of Chinese investment into the UK is changing, with the current sovereign-wealth-heavy model opening up to allow more direct spending and wider scale JVs: today's "trickle" of major…
Dues Diligence: A comparison of international property taxation
In comparison with many other countries, the UK property tax regime is relatively modest, says CBRE in its Global Living report.
Britain’s 20 worst places to invest in property
11 locations are delivering negative yields to investors, with property prices in the worst performing areas dropping by more than 7% a year, according to a new list of the UK's "property investment blackspots".
Luxury asset investments trump prime property
Luxury investments - cars, wine, art etc - have outperformed property over the last decade, and by quite the margin.