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Vancouver declares 5% of homes ’empty’ – and liable for a new tax
8,481 of residential properties in the Canadian city were "unoccupied/underutilized" for more than 180 days last year
Westminster ‘guilt tax’ gets go-ahead
Council votes to roll out innovative 'Community Contribution' scheme
London’s property market in nine charts
A snapshot of sales and rental market trends from Chestertons
New York trumps London in city wealth rankings
Big Apple sweeps the board in terms of wealth, investment, lifestyle and future; London still beats all other European cities with Brexit having 'limited impact' so far...
PIRI 100: European cities emerge from decade of weak growth
Annual index tracks performance of world’s leading prime second home and city resi markets
How many square metres of luxury property does US$1m buy around the world?
With US$1m you could afford 16 square metres in Monaco, 28 in London, or 173 in Sao Paulo...
Hybrid agency eyes Prime Central London expansion
Notting Hill-based YOUhome claims to have 'turned the old estate agency model on its head'
More borrowers choose longer-term mortgages than two-year deals for the first time
48% of mortgages written in Q4 2017 were for five years or more; 40% were two-year products. 91% were fixed-rate.
HMRC warns offshore tax dodgers to ‘put their cards on the table quickly’
'Much bigger fines' for tax evasion are coming into force on 1st October; warnings should be taken seriously, say advisors
Britain’s billionaires, ranked
Forbes Rich List 2018
Billionaire pays £1m a year to ‘test-run’ £36m Westminster mansion
11,000 square foot Baroque-style pile was launched onto the sales market last year, following an ultra-prime makeover by Saigol DDC;
Prime Central London transaction numbers hit a record low, claims new property index
London Central Portfolio launches a new property index; reports that England & Wales has just seen the biggest quarterly fall in property prices since the global financial crisis