September 26, 2013
Would you buy a house on Friday 13?
September 16, 2013
The collapse of Lehman Brothers, five years ago this weekend, had an immediate impact on a UK property market already reeling from the failure of Northern Rock a year earlier. By Tanya Powley
August 30, 2013
The location of the penthouse apartment is one of London’s most desirable says Nicola Venning
August 15, 2013
Wealthy Hongkongers are among those buying to renovate and rent, or sell on to other Asians. by Richard Warren
August 5, 2013
Secret homes with lush gardens lurk in city centres, says Lauren Thompson.
August 2, 2013
August 1, 2013
Demand is growing for high-end homes built or adapted to meet the religious needs of their owners. By Graham Norwood.
July 6, 2013
London’s historic St James’s quarter is ripe for investment, reports Lucy Warwick-Ching
June 1, 2013
Off-market property sales are on the rise, but is the chase for privacy, exclusivity and mystique costing buyers thousands of pounds? Graham Norwood reports... Top-end locations like prime central London there is a phenomenon spoken about in hushed terms and seen rarely in the rest of the country: it is the 'off-market' property.
April 12, 2013
How can we tell that an area is on the cusp of becoming the next fashionable location? Alexander Garrett looks at a few of the telltale signs. It's the question every would-be property investor would like answered: how do you know when an area is genuinely on the way up, and not just being talked up by the local estate agents?
January 25, 2013
Demand for resi new-build is sky high and rising. CBRE revealed earlier today that the volume of such sales above £1,000 per square foot leapt by a whopping 240% over the last year and it’s been well-documented that South East Asian buyers have increasingly become a dominant force behind similarly remarkable figures, even shaping the way in which developers develop their schemes and marketeers market them.
January 14, 2013
Investors have rushed in to reserve luxury homes planned for the revamped Battersea Power Station, with 600 of the 800 properties already claimed after just five days on the market. The buyers are the first to advance on the redevelopment of south-west London's iconic behemoth where the price tag per square foot exceeds £1,000.
January 3, 2013
The UK is experiencing a sharp increase in the number of HNWs making the move from Eastern countries, particularly China. Chloe Barrow finds out why AS UNATTRACTIVE AS living in the UK may be — the faltering economy, the unpredictable weather, sky-high living costs and seemingly hefty income tax — there is no denying its global popularity as a homemaking destination.
November 12, 2012
As more wealthy Asians seek to buy property overseas as an investment or short-term residence, their private bankers are only too happy to help. The wealth management divisions of banks are reporting a brisk business in setting up short-term revolving loans for property purchases. The term is usually five years, renewable annually after that, and the interest rate is set individually in accordance with the borrower’s credit profile.
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