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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.
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.
New partner for Strutt country
Luke Morgan, formerly of Knight Frank's The Buying Solution, has joined Strutt & Parker's country department as a national partner at its offices in Mayfair, London.
Christmas is a cracking time for deals
Will it be a sleepy slow-down or a mad panic rush for the prime property market this festive season, asks Camilla Dell...
December is a funny month.
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.
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…
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.
Shoreditch is over, says LSE prof’
David Cameron's approval of a "Creative City" around Old Street and Shoreditch is a death knell for the area, according to one of LSE's leading sociologist, Professor Richard Sennett.
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.
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.
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.
‘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…