Economics

The UK's property tax system is "strange and inconsistent", according to The Adam Smith Institute.

European billionaires are hunkering down; total wealth increased by 5% in 2016, while the number of billionaires in Europe increased by just three to 342.

2,494 was the lowest number recorded in a third quarter since 1992

Non-Dom taxation, Brexit, tightened mortgage lending, blustering rhetoric...

A blunder by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in which it miscalculated a crucial measure of labour cost inflation could lead to Bank of England policymakers signalling the need for "one or two"…

"The UK may need to wean itself off its property addiction, but it also needs to sustain confidence in the single asset class that counts for almost two thirds of its wealth"

Fascinating stats in HMRC's latest annual update

Toronto has the most overly-inflated property market in the world, says UBS

The world's super-rich are generally getting richer, and there are more of them, says Capgemini

The heritage sector directly contributed £11.9bn to the economy in the last year, says Historic England