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Ups and downs for global house prices in 2012
The world's housing markets posted mixed signals during the full year to Q3 2012, according to the latest survey of global house price trends. The bad news is strongly concentrated in Europe
Cadogan Estate appoints former Chief Executive of Land Securities
The Cadogan Estate has announced the appointment of Francis Salway as a Non-Executive Director, with effect from December 2012
Cordea Savills’s resi fund starts spending
Cordea Savills's first London Residential Development Fund has started buying, spending £40m on two adjacent properties in Chelsea.
Osborne stamps-out stamp duty dodging
The number of £2m+ homes being bought through the offshore company tax-dodge has plummeted by 80% since March's budget, according to the FT.
Finance Bill introduces annual property levy and extends capital gains tax reach
The new Draft Finance Bill includes, as feared, a bunch of new property taxes: there's a new annual levy for non doms with homes worth over £2m, and an extension to capital gains tax, at 28%, for "non-residential …
Required Reading: The Finance Bill 2013 for HNWs
The Government's Finance Bill 2013, published today, confirms that the proposals announced in March this year are coming into force in April 2013
London under threat from high-rise developments
Ed Vaisey, the architecture and heritage minister, is "very worried" about the impact that high-rise developments on the South Bank will have on London's historic landscape and buildings, including the…
‘Tis the season to be jolly – £250m of country sales in a month for Knight Frank
With only a couple of weeks left until the property world hangs up its brogues for another year, there's been somewhat of a pre-Christmas rush in Knight Frank’s Country Division, with over £250m worth of …
New MD for NAEA (finally!)
After a lengthy search, Mark Hayward has been announced as the new managing director of the National Association of Estate Agents
Ronson gets Riverwalk SW1 underway
London property investment vehicle Ronson Capital Partners has just confirmed the start of development of Riverwalk, SW1, its high-spec 113-unit waterfront resi project in Westminster
Strutt & Parker aims for £100,000 charity target
Strutt & Parker began its fundraising initiative in support of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity with a launch event in Mayfair last night
Jones Lang LaSalle opens flagship City office
Jones Lang LaSalle has announced the launch of a dedicated residential sales office in the swanky Royal Exchange, slap bang in the middle of the City of London, EC3