UK house prices: Will the surge last or is it a bubble? September 2, 2020 UK house prices surged to an all-time high last month as pent-up lockdown demand and chancellor Rishi Sunak’s stamp duty cut stimulated the market. The average UK house price rose to a record £224,123 in August, up from £220,935 in July. Bombastic estate agents greeted the figures with glee, variously describing UK house prices as [...]
Renters return to London with a vengeance as City workers want to walk to work September 27, 2021 London prices have recorded the strongest quarter of growth in over a decade as the capital’s prime rental market now leads the recovery. A return of office workers and employees relocating for work meant prices were up 2.9 per cent in the third quarter, the strongest quarter of growth since March 2011, according to Savills. [...]
Gresham House targets Mobeus’ venture capital arm in £36m deal September 10, 2021 Gresham House has acquired Mobeus Equity Partners’ top-performing venture capital trust (VCT) business in a £36m deal, three months after purchasing Ireland’s Appian Asset Management. As part of its latest deal, the alternative asset manager will take on £369m assets under management that run across Mobeus’ four VCT funds. Expected to complete in the next [...]
Central banks face tough journey to ‘Goldilocks’ policy setting June 19, 2022 Goldilocks found the perfect bowl of porridge through trial and error. The US Federal Reserve, Bank of England and the rest of the central banking elite are following a similar rationale right now. They are grasping for that “just-right” policy setting which allows an economy to reach its full potential without knowing what that setting [...]
The role of VC investors in FTX – too big to fake? November 29, 2022 CMS Law's Charlie Kerrigan picks through the levels of disbelief that FTX were able to hoover up VC cash without anyone smelling a rat.
Decentralised assets – gold, silver, Bitcoin – has their time come? January 31, 2023 Jonny Fry takes a look at how decentralised assets line up against global debt and the way investors will want a digital future.
Demand for houses worth £1m is greater outside London than inside August 11, 2021 London is losing its grip on the luxury housing market with more homes worth £1m sold outside the capital than inside for the first time. Data provided by the HM Land Registry has revealed that 51 per cent of the 6,573 homes that sold for more than £1m in England and Wales were based outside [...]
Data: protection, possibilities, purpose December 22, 2023 The Data Protection and Digital Information Bill has arrived in the House of Lords and peers have questioned the minister.
US plunges into technical recession as rest of world braces for similar fate July 28, 2022 The US economy has plunged into a technical recession in a sign of things to come for the rest of the world, figures published today revealed. The American economy unexpectedly shrank 0.9 per cent in the three months to June, marking the second successive quarter the economy has contracted, meeting the common definition of a [...]
UK housing stock hits record value of £7 trillion January 13, 2020 The UK’s housing stock has reached a record value of £7.39 trillion, according to the latest research. Total gains last year hit £101.8bn – growth of 1.4 per cent – and the value of housing across the UK has increased by £2.74 trillion in the last 10 years. Read more: New build homes drive UK [...]