Branding a sports star: How Wasserman create social media prodigies December 12, 2016 Sports stars want to be rock stars, and rock stars want to be sports stars,” says Lenah Ueltzen-Gabell, executive vice president for Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Wasserman. We’re sitting in its newly refurbished headquarters at Aldwych House, an ultra-modern, open space of reductive design, coated with memorabilia gleaned from years of representing [...]
Sterling hammered as pound drops toward $1.21 October 11, 2016 Sterling continued its dramatic decline last night, crashing through key levels against both the dollar and the euro during a punishing session. The pound lost two cents against the dollar in a matter of four hours yesterday evening, falling to a low of $1.209 after US markets opened. Sterling also plunged through the €1.10 mark [...]
Why more private developers are looking to buy up the air rights above your building and make a fortune September 28, 2016 It isn’t hard to find a property expert claiming the future of the London housing market is up in the air. But there’s a growing band of developers who agree with them, albeit in a more literal sense. Smaller housebuilders have to get creative when looking for viable development opportunities, and for an ambitious few, [...]
Britons may need visas as well as passports to travel in Europe after Brexit is formalised September 10, 2016 UK citizens may need to apply for visas if they wish to travel to EU countries after Britain formally leaves the organisation. Officials at the EU's executive body are considering plans that would mean British business travellers and tourists would need to apply online for a visa and pay a fee before travelling to the [...]
Broadband services yet to reach the last mile, or 10 per cent of UK homes September 18, 2016 Around ten per cent of the UK's housing stock still experiences a woefully inadequate broadband connection according to the CEO of a company that provides satellite broadband, despite government targets to boost connectivity and generous subsidies. Aim-listed Satellite Solutions Worldwide provides superfast broadband to places, often rural, where typically no broadband exists. CEO Andrew Walwyn [...]
Houses in the West End are still selling like hotcakes, says CBRE August 17, 2016 Home sales have remained "strong" for CBRE after Brexit, with the company reporting it has exchanged on nearly £60m worth of residential property in the second quarter of this year. The transaction value achieved by CBRE was its second highest for the last four years. Read more: Here's everything that's happened to house prices since the Brexit vote Three [...]
How the Brexit vote will affect house prices over the next five years July 28, 2016 The immediate aftermath of the Brexit vote will briefly slow house price growth in the UK, nevertheless it's set to pick up thereafter. Think tank the Centre for Economics and Business Research predicts that they'll rise 5.7 per cent over 2016, however given the average price increased eight per cent year-on-year in the first quarter, this points [...]
After a gloomy RICS survey, should we be prepared for big falls in UK house prices? August 12, 2016 Andrew Craig, an independent financial adviser and founder of Plain English Finance, says Yes. We have already seen significant falls in house prices in the UK if, as should be the case, you measure such things in currency units other than pounds sterling. If you bought a property worth £1m around 10 years ago, that property [...]
Q&A: What makes Britain’s family businesses tick? October 27, 2016 Family businesses are rarely mentioned in the debate about how best to support Britain’s smaller companies, and yet they make up a sizeable proportion of SMEs. According to the Institute for Family Business (IFB), of the 4.6m family-owned firms in the UK, 99.6 per cent are small. To find out more, we spoke with professor [...]
Liberty House to restart large steel bar and rod rolling mill in Kent October 14, 2016 Industrials group Liberty House has ploughed more investment into the UK steel industry and is set to revive a large mill in Kent by mid-next year, the company said today. Liberty will restart rod and bar rolling mills at the facility in Sheerness in Kent, which shut down more than four years ago. The group [...]