Another sign that stamp duty deadline sent buy-to-let investors into a buying frenzy April 7, 2016 More proof George Osborne's stamp duty wizard wheeze served to push up prices in the run-up to the deadline, after new figures showed UK house prices rose by the most in at least a year in March. Halifax's house price index, published this morning, showed prices rose 10.1 per cent in the year to March, [...]
The number of people who have tried e-cigarettes nearly doubled in two years May 26, 2016 The number of people who have tried an e-cigarette has almost doubled in two years – and is only slightly lower than the proportion of people who regularly smoke. In a new Imperial College London study of 53,000 people across Europe, researchers found the number of people who had tried vaping in the UK rose from 8.9 [...]
London house prices: South Ruislip the hottest property spot on the Tube map as Crossrail boosts prices in Zones Three and Four February 15, 2016 When you're thinking of the hottest property spots in London, Hillingdon's finest South Ruislip might not be the first location to pass your lips. But the Zone Five station has named London's most in-demand neighbourhood out of the 280 Tube stations on the network, with 75 per cent of available properties selling within the last three [...]
Post-vote bump fades but Royal Mail delivers – London Report May 11, 2015 LAST week’s relief rally from the unexpectedly strong Conservative General Election victory petered out to leave the FTSE 100 relatively flat by yesterday’s close. The trading day was dominated by central-bank decisions, with the Bank of England keeping interest rates on hold at 0.5 per cent and a cut in Chinese interest rates supporting commodities [...]
James Bond’s tailor Timothy Everest lectures the financial fashion pack at Bar20 April 6, 2016 If The Capitalist has learnt anything, it's that City types love all things James Bond. Last year, no less than four financial firms in London confessed to hosting their own private screenings on the release of Spectre, and some even set up their own martini bars for the night. Earlier this week Mads Mikkelsen, who [...]
Parking mad: London parking spaces sold for over £200,000 May 8, 2016 LONDON is one of the world’s most expensive places to pay for parking space. On Brewer Street in Soho, for example, you could spend over £50 on just three hours of parking. That may be why some mysterious buyers have forked out as much as much as half a million pounds to buy a parking [...]
The voting is open for Voom 2016, the startup pitching competition run by Richard Branson April 5, 2016 The voting is open for Britain's biggest entrepreneurial battle. Some 300 pitches have already been made, with a further 900 in process for Voom 2016, the annual startup competition run by Virgin Media Business and hosted by his royal highness Sir Richard Branson. The initiative lets British entrepreneurs sell their ideas to execs at Virgin, including Branson [...]
Brace yourselves, City folk, pick-up artist Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh is coming to town February 2, 2016 Jilted lovers and misogynists often find February’s romantic festivities hard to swallow, so to keep solidarity up they’re meeting at the Royal Exchange this weekend. Daryush “Roosh” Valizadeh, a self-proclaimed “pick-up artist” who was famously interviewed by the BBC over the Men’s Rights Movement and his attempts to teach blokes to chat to womenfolk, is organising [...]
From Doctor Who penthouses gothic three-beds, here are the new builds hitting the London property market this week April 7, 2016 Queen’s Wharf, Hammersmith Four penthouses are on sale atop a riverside scheme in Hammersmith. Named Clark, Dixon, Appleby and Thorne after four key figures in the construction of Hammersmith Bridge, the penthouses have three bedrooms and a private roof terrace each. Prices start at £4.2m and they’re due to be finished in 2017. The scheme [...]
Want to own a slice of royalty? Prince Philip’s 1954 Aston Martin Lagonda MK1 has been put up for auction March 14, 2016 Fancy owning a slice of motoring history? The car that netted Aston Martin its first Royal Warrant has just been put up for auction – although with an estimate of £350,000 to £450,000, you'll have to be pretty committed. The three-litre Lagonda, in a "bespoke shade" of Ediburgh Green, was one of just 20 MK1 [...]