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New recruit and lending milestone for Topland
Sol Zakay's property investment outfit, Topland, has announced it has dished out over £400m in its recent lending drive.
The firm has now funded schemes with a collective GDV in excess of £800m.
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We're rather proud to announce the launch of The PrimeResi Directory: a new resource to help you find the right people for the job.
Tax Discredit: Why next year’s CGT changes could be a very bad idea
To continue to attract investors to our country, we need to offer the prospect of stronger returns than our European counterparts and that’s not going to be achieved by hiking up tax bills, says David…
Chinese buyers to become ‘biggest overseas force in London’s property market’ by 2016
Harrods Estates has signed an agency-wide partnership with Chinese mega-portal Juwai.com, as new figures are released on the scale of Chinese investment into the capital's property market.
Prime Property of the Week: Super Hans
Hans Place, Knightsbridge
£13m
Named after the inventor of hot chocolate (and the British Museum), Hans Sloane, this splendid garden square is right in the Knightsbridge mixer. No compromises here;
Selling a £30m mansion? There’s an app for that…
A developer has come up with an interesting marketing idea to help shift a 'world-class' country estate on the Isle of Man.
London Vs New York City Vs Hong Kong: The costs of buying a prime property
Buying Agency Middleton Advisors has worked out that the cost of buying a £1.5m ish property in London has risen by 1% over the last five years, from 4.8% of the purchase price in 2009 to 5.8% in 2014.
Zoopla IPO prospectus flags Agents’ Mutual threat
Zoopla's float prospectus has been published, and it flags up the real threat that the launch of Agents' Mutual "could materially adversely impact the Group’s business".
Whack up taxes on London’s empty homes by 1000% – BoJo
BoJo has called for London councils to 'whack up' taxes on empty homes by a whopping 1000% in a bid to address the capital's housing shortage.
Ballymore hires Spanish artist for Embassy Gardens design
Ballymore has commissioned Spanish artist Luis Bustamante to jazz up its landmark Embassy Gardens scheme on the South Bank.
Brussels Spouting: What a Cheek!
Our European counterparts are burdened with a particularly caustic mix of liabilities, and yet they still have the temerity to talk about our so called ‘overheated’ property market - what a cheek,…
Is it over for the ‘Safe Haven’ effect in Europe’s luxury markets?
“The critical question is whether prevailing wealth flows will alter now that the worst of the Eurozone crisis is over,” says Knight Frank's Head of International Resi Research Kate Everett-Allen,…