Location: United Kingdom
Finance Bill last chance for rental sector to avoid ‘triple-lock’
The triple whammy of stamp duty reform, changes to buy-to-let mortgage tax relief and the Bank of England’s new rules for mortgage lenders will have "catastrophic consequences" for the UK rental sector,…
Have boffins worked out how to predict the next up-and-coming neighbourhood?
Forget skips and Starbucks' - researchers from Cambridge, Birmingham, Queen Mary and UCL have put forward some compelling ideas on how location-based social networks could foretell the gentrification…
UK ‘still one of the cheapest places to invest in rental property’
In total tax take terms, the UK remains one of the cheapest countries in the world for investors involved in resi and commercial property rental, according to a new study.
Chinese developers have spent $30bn on overseas projects in the last five years
China's economy may be going through a rough patch but that hasn't stopped its property developers spending record amounts on overseas projects.
The Bubble Deflates…Slowly: PCL values peaked in 2014 and have already fallen 15%
From talking to agents, looking at valuations over the last two years and then analysing the market evidence, James Wyatt's research house Parthenia figures that prices in prime central London have already…
Housing supply is ‘increasing markedly’ as UK-wide planning permissions rise
The number of initial planning permissions approved across Great Britain has risen steadily every year since 2009, says The Home Builders' Federation (HBF), with actual housing supply also "increasing…
Rare SW London fixer upper portfolio offered for £7m
An extremely rare portfolio of ten residential fixer-uppers in "emerging prime" South West London has come up for £7m.
Picky planning is ‘contributing to a completely unfair and immoral housing shortfall’
"Change isn't happening", says Stirling Ackroyd's Andrew Bridges as new figures show that the number of new homes granted planning permission in London has plummeted by 64% in the last year, with…
LendInvest development finance team completing a deal a week
LendInvest's new development finance division has written 14 deals in its first four months, ranging from £400k right up to £10m.
Emaar sets up shop in Harrods to sell the “Riviera of the Middle East”
Dubai-based mega-developer Emaar Properties, the firm behind the world’s incumbent tallest building, Burj Khalifa, has teamed up with Harrods Estates to promote its latest project: Dubai Creek Harbour,…
Merchant Land unveils new Marylebone scheme
Boutique developer Merchant Land has pulled the covers off this rather handsome Georgian-inspired scheme in London's Marylebone.
LCP brings in former FTSE Chairman as Director
Property fund and asset manager London Central Portfolio has followed up the appointment of Triangle Group's Rick Denton to its board by securing the services of a former FTSE 250 Chairman.