Why your client checks need to be more thorough than ever
Following the NCA’s latest victory involving the use of so-called McMafia orders, criminal litigation specialist Ed Smyth warns on the potential implications for prime real estate advisers...
Ed represents individuals and corporates across the full spectrum of criminal and quasi-criminal matters. His practice encompasses investigations, prosecutions and other litigation conducted by a variety of different agencies concerning criminal defence and police investigations, bribery and corruption, financial crime and money laundering.
Countrywide fined over £10m client fund transfer
Agency summoned to disciplinary hearing at the RICS in Birmingham over alleged failure to safeguard client funds
By PrimeResi
Outside the Envelope: April’s new inheritance regime for non-dom owners of UK residential property
Change is afoot for non-dom owners of UK property... From April, inheritance tax will be due on all residential properties in the UK, regardless of whether it's owned through an offshore entity..
By Stuart Adams
A Letter from MIPIM: Plus ça change
"It feels like the winds of change are blowing through the property industry and not just down the Croisette this year," says Brecher's Nicky Richmond in a dispatch from MIPIM
Most read
Super-rich buyers line up for Caudwell’s 1 Mayfair residences
£2bn Central London development tops out; claims world’s longest 'waiting list' of centi-millionaires & billionaires.
Deal sealed on rare quadruple lateral on Eaton Square
Sprawling short lease proposition created 'quite a stir'.
Penthouse at forthcoming boutique Mayfair scheme achieves £5,000 psf
Half of the units at Three Kings Mayfair have been snapped up off-plan.
Boutique luxury developers secure consent for ‘landmark’ Notting Hill scheme
Echlin & Bodker have been given the green light to create six luxury townhouses & two apartments on Lansdowne Walk.
By PrimeResi
PCL agency Tedworth brings in new lettings boss from Hamptons
The Sloane Street-based firm is looking to accelerate its lettings offering.
Super-rich buyers line up for Caudwell’s 1 Mayfair residences
£2bn Central London development tops out; claims world’s longest 'waiting list' of centi-millionaires & billionaires.
Former Knight Frank chief to chair Grosvenor’s UK property business
Alistair Elliott will take over the high-profile role from Melanie Gee in January.
American brokerage giant Compass set to buy @properties & Christie’s International Real Estate
'Game-changing partnership' promises to 'take the Christie’s International Real Estate network to unprecedented heights' while giving America's biggest brokerage a presence outside the US for the first t…
By PrimeResi
Trio of seasoned agents join The London Broker
Expanding high-end brokerage signs up Adam Carey, Silvina Paz & Ryan Steenfeld-Kristensen.
Bangladeshi corruption investigations raise alarm over London property market
'This is a test for the UK government to demonstrate it can fulfil its ambition of being the anti-corruption capital of the world,' says Transparency International.
By PrimeResi
LATEST ARTICLES
Trending keywords & most-viewed listings: Zoopla’s 2024 in review
As the market outlook brightens, property portal Zoopla has opened its data banks to highlight some of the key user trends & buyer behaviours of the past 12 months.
By PrimeResi
Boutique agency reports another record-breaking deal in London’s West End
HNW buyers are becoming increasingly product-led, reports Tavistock Bow, as resale unit sets new Covent Garden price benchmark.
Prime London buying agency reveals top deals from £120mn year
'It is 100 per cent a buyers’ market', says Black Brick boss, trumpeting the firm's biggest acquisitions of 2024.
Lomond buys 60+ branch London agency KFH
'It's a big one,' says CEO Ed Phillips, as Lomond makes its first business acquisition under new backer ICG.
By PrimeResi
£16mn mansion changes hands in St John’s Wood
Standout family residence was secured by an international buyer in a fast-tracked deal.