Property Investment News
Real estate in the metaverse is booming; is it really such a crazy idea?
Gaming is starting to overlap with real life, explains Theo Tzanidis - but is the virtual real estate boom the next great thing or the next big bubble?
Watch: Hollinrake proposes a new wealth tax on non-resident property owners
MP and former estate agency boss Kevin Hollinrake has outlined a series of proposals to make Britain's housing market more fair and equitable - including a new wealth tax on overseas buyers of UK property
Savills adds Operational Capital Markets director
Ed Crockett has joined Savills from abrdn, where he was head of UK Residential Investment.
Investors pump record amounts into UK build-to-rent projects
14% more capital was invested into the UK's build-to-rent sector last year than in any other year.
Fine & Country enters the Metaverse
“It makes perfect sense for real estate funds and family offices to allocate up to 5% of their portfolio to Metaverse," says the founder of Exclusible, a luxury-focused NFT platform that's just partnered w…
Wilton Crescent refurb project bags £17.5m loan from CapitalRise
Super-prime townhouse renovation project in Belgravia has been valued in its current state at £27m.
Warwick Investments builds PCL rental presence with off-market Mayfair mansion acquisition
Warwick Investment Group - run in the UK by former CPC exec Andrew Chrysostomou - is building an impressive portfolio of prime rental properties in Mayfair and Belgravia.
‘Rents in Inner London are on track to reach pre-pandemic levels by the middle of 2022’ – Hamptons
"Rents in Inner London are on track to reach pre-pandemic levels by the middle of 2022," says Hamptons
Historic Mayfair townhouse project secures mezzanine loan
CapitalRise has financed another notable luxury residential project in Prime Central London.
Capital Gains Tax should be extended to nearly all homes, argues top think tank; here’s how it could work
Home-owners have benefitted from an "unearned, unequal and untaxed £3 trillion capital gains windfall" over the last 20 years, says the Resolution Foundation; this "one-off property lottery" should be …
Proptech investment reaches a record high
“Proptech investment is growing significantly year-on-year, as the real estate sector is increasingly aware of the operational performance gaps that have been unaddressed for a number of years," says F…
Lloyds eyes massive buy-to-let expansion
Lloyds Banking Group's new buy-to-let division, Citra Living, could see its budget quadruple to £1 billion or more, according to "people familiar with the deliberations."