Location: Europe
Budget 2015: ‘The sun is starting to shine and we are fixing the roof’
May's looking like a bit of an electoral stalemate according to most of the pollsters, so today's Budget was a splendid chance for the Chancellor to try to put some clear water between the Tories and…
#Budget2015: The prime property industry’s reactions
No surprises in today's pre-election Budget, and not much new that directly affects the top of the market, but there are still some things to have opinions about...
Read about what was announced here.
Give Brits a break from the highest property taxes in the world – Leeming
The Chairman of 44-office estate agency Jackson-Stops & Staff has come out swinging against politicians debating the merits of a mansion tax;
Irish prices soar as global property performance slips
Knight Frank's Global House Price Index dropped a touch in the last three months of 2014 - its first fall in over two years - sliding by 0.
Last of the iceberg houses? Westminster approves billionaire Bertarelli’s Belgravia mega-basement
Kirsty Bertarelli - Britain's richest woman, a songwriter and a former Miss UK - has won planning permission to dig out a two-storey basement underneath her Belgravia mews house "to make it more conducive…
Grosvenor recruits new Major Projects Director for London
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has appointed Simon Harding-Roots as Executive Director, Major Projects, London estate.
Letter from MIPIM #4: Never forget to follow up, even with the longshots
It’s the last day and I see groups of men standing on street corners with suitcases, quietly waiting for their taxis to the airport.
Short supply puts prices back on the rise – except in London
London was the only place in the UK where more surveyors reported price drops than rises in February, with price increases across the rest of the country re-emerging due to the demand supply imbalance,…
Letter from MIPIM #3: CBA (Can’t Be Arsed)
Forced to wake up at the ungodly hour of 8am to attend a breakfast I wonder what sort of sadist thinks that 9am on the Thursday of MIPIM is an acceptable start time. I tweet this.
Letter from MIPIM #2: How to Play Real Estate Blind Date
LinkedIn has been a lifesaver in this maelstrom of real estate Blind Date, says Nicky Richmond...
Day two and I'm making notes.
The rise of resi, Asia’s ‘flight to safety’ and other global real estate megatrends
Residential property is "moving out of the public or semi-public sector and specialist investor/developer ambit, and into the mainstream," and the movement of capital from East to West is likely to remain…
Letter from MIPIM #1: A Different Time
Nicky Richmond reports back from her nineteenth MIPIM, where things seem very different to how they were in 1996...
Just a single glance at the overstuffed diary makes me feel a little anxious.