West End offices enjoys surge in investment October 16, 2012 INVESTMENT in London’s sought-after West End office market surged by 30 per cent in the third quarter as an influx of properties became available on the market and demand overseas investors continued to rise. Research by BNP Paribas Real Estate, the French bank’s property arm, said West End investment rose to £950m in the third [...]
Desperate Osborne risks fuelling another housing bubble January 22, 2013 It is starting to look as if George Osborne is going to blow another housing bubble, albeit this time of a more modest variety. His Funding for Lending Scheme is starting to have an effect; but instead of making it easier and cheaper for small firms to borrow money, the subsidy’s supposed intention, the scheme [...]
Grainger net asset value jumps as it focuses on the south east November 22, 2012 RESIDENTIAL landlord Grainger yesterday pledged to reduce its net debt to under £1bn over the next 12 months as it posted a strong set of full-year results. The FTSE 250 residential property owner-manager said net asset value increased 3.2 per cent to 223p for the year to 30 September, thanks to its focus on the [...]
London Report: Ukraine unrest drags on FTSE as volatility climbs March 3, 2014 BRITAIN’S top share index fell to a two-week low yesterday, led down by asset management firms as stocks most exposed to emerging markets fell on increasing tensions in Ukraine. The possibility of war between Russia and Ukraine hit stocks that are particularly sensitive to optimism over global markets, such as fund managers Schroders and Aberdeen [...]
Who’s switching jobs November 21, 2012 Cushman & Wakefield Robert Murphy has been appointed partner and head of City of London development in the commercial real estate service firm’s London markets team. He joins from CBRE, where he was a senior director in its central London development team. Picton Fraser D’Arcy has been appointed to the newly-created role of investment director [...]
What the other papers say this morning December 20, 2012 FINANCIAL TIMES Trafigura earns $1bn twice in a row Trafigura, the commodities trader, earned about $1bn for the second year running in 2012, indicating that the profitability of the world’s top houses that dominate raw materials has remained high in spite of slower economic growth in China. The privately held company, based in Geneva and [...]
Chile: the most varied country in the world November 17, 2013 From mountains to desert, Ashwin Bhardwaj is enchanted by the diverse delights of Chile AT UNIVERSITY, we teased our Geographer housemate for doing a degree in “colouring in.” But we secretly envied his trips to exotic corners of the globe, digging ice cores and monitoring volcanoes. Visualising geography is difficult in England as this green [...]
Alternative Orlando is blooming August 18, 2013 There is more to the Sunshine State’s theme-park capital than Disney Land I WAS in Orlando for the Florida Film Festival. A film I had produced called The North London Book of the Dead was in the British Shorts Now! programme. Great, right? Except… Orlando? Seriously? It’s hardly renowned for its thriving arts scene. But [...]
Lionhearts take aim at World Series November 6, 2012 A BRITISH team featuring London 2012 Olympic silver medallist Fred Evans will take part in the fledgling World Series of Boxing. The British Lionhearts, who were officially announced yesterday with a photocall on Millennium Bridge in central London, include 15 other fighters also part of GB Boxing’s Olympic programme. Middleweight Evans is joined by bantamweight [...]
Who’s switching jobs November 15, 2012 Maurice Turnor Gardner The law firm has announced the appointment Sarah Conway as partner in its residential property practice, effective January 2013. She joins from Allen & Overy, where she has worked since 1998. Conway has also held the partnership at Carruthers & Co, and focuses on residential property transactions for high net worth clients. [...]