Policy
Malaysia to probe record-breaking Battersea Power Station deal
Leader of governing coalition vows to look into billions of dollars of investments made by previous administration, including the giant south west London regen project...
NCA considering ‘between 120 and 130’ UWO applications
"Step change" in unexplained wealth orders on the cards, with some significant UK real estate assets at stake...
Is compliance strangling commerce?
After a tortuous experience trying to do business with the private wealth department of a well-known clearing bank, agency boss Trevor Abrahmsohn has had it up to here with suffocating regulatory restrictions...
What is the Tier 1 UK visa Roman Abramovich has been trying to renew and why the delay?
Immigration law expert Jo Wilding explains the procedure involved in renewing the specialist visa for HNWI making a 'substantial financial investment' to the UK, and addresses recent speculation over…
Why Russia’s ‘dirty money’ is not leaving London any time soon
What is missing in the Moscow’s Gold report is a broader understanding of why Russian (and non-Russian money for that matter) flows into London and the UK in the first place...
Why viability studies are often not viable
A system which enables councils to charge developers twice for studies into the viability of their building projects is unfair, causes months of delays, and discriminates against SME companies, says Charles…
Underground Tactics: How to challenge (and defend) a basement development scheme
What can unhappy neighbours do about basement developments, and what should those doing the works be concerned about?
MPs call for more sanctions against Russian oligarchs to ‘close the London laundromat’
Report accuses Britain of still 'turning a blind eye' to 'dirty money' from Putin's network
Tories ‘came within a whisker’ of abolishing stamp duty
Plan to replace SDLT with CGT on all homes was due to be the centrepiece of PM May's big policy declaration last year, according to new revelations, even making it to the "last but one working draft"...
City Hall proposes new compulsory purchase powers to boost London housebuilding
The Greater London Authority has published a 96-page dossier outlining ways to improve residential development land assembly in the capital
Westminster’s voluntary taxation experiment falls flat
Three months after council launches innovative 'community contribution' scheme, new figures reveal that only 2% of high-end homeowners have actually put their hands in their pockets...
It is time to hand the housing crisis over to the professionals
The UK's property industry has the depth of talent to turn decades of underinvestment and policy neglect around, but only if given the power to do so, says Alexander Lewis...