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Futurewealth #3: helpful investment technologies
In the third in-depth report of the series, wealth gurus Scorpio Partnership explore how investment advisors and the Futurewealthy use technology to discover, inform and deliver investments.
Stamp Duty: one year on… Sales drop but Revenue’s revenue rises
With the countdown to the 2013 Budget underway, Knight Frank's Head of Residential Research Liam Bailey looks at the impact last year’s increase in Stamp Duty has had on the market, finding that, whilst…
Songs of Experience: How to be a proper property expert
Expert says who? Simon Barnes gets on his soap box to explain what the term "expert" really means to him...
Jones Lang LaSalle wins Manchester Skyline gig
Jones Lang LaSalle has bagged the instruction to sell Skyline Central 2, an award winning prime residential development by Wheatley Properties on the fringe of Manchester’s northern quarter.
Berkeley Group opens first Singapore office
UK property giant Berkeley Group today opened its corporate office in the heart of Singapore’s new central business distrct – a plush space that includes a new 3,175 sq ft marketing suite at Marina…
ABC launches unlimited resi bridge loan
Short-term commercial lending specialist Alternative Bridging Corporation (ABC) is going big on the residential market, launching a new bridging loan product targeting prime resi projects.
London drives strong investor returns as UK resi portfolios deliver 8.9%
Residential investment continues to outperform inflation and commercial real estate, according to the latest IPD UK Annual Residential Property Index, with returns from portfolios in the private rented…
Super-sewer “stink pipe” threatens riverside developments
Thames Water's Development Consent application for the new £4bn, 25km Thames Tideway Tunnel, submitted yesterday, runs to 50,000 pages.
LSL reports 62% fall in pre-tax profits
LSL Property Services, who bought Marsh & Parsons, Davis Tate and Lauristons in 2012, has reported a 62% drop in pre-tax profits for the year ending 2012, down from £17.6m to £6.7m.
Bankers’ bonuses: The property industry reacts
Savills estimates that prime London housing markets have benefited from £23 billion of bonus money from the financial and insurance services sector over the past ten years, with a further £14 billion…
Cash buyers crash out of the prime central London market
The proportion of cash buyers in prime central London has slumped from 74% in 2011 to 49% in 2012, according to the latest (well-timed) report from Cluttons.
Interior Monologue: Finishing touches for MIPIM
After a month of high-end hobnobbing in London, it's time to put those networking skills into action across the Channel, says Alec Watt...
First up - an interior designer on Dragons Den!