UK house prices: Property transactions fell again last month September 21, 2017 The number of homes bought and sold in the UK fell again between July and August, providing further evidence the property market is beginning to stagnate. On a seasonally adjusted basis, property transactions fell 0.5 per cent between July and August to 103,490, figures by HM Revenues and Customs (HMRC) showed. Although the figure is [...]
UK house prices: More than three quarters of homes are selling below asking price June 27, 2017 More than three quarters of homes sold for less than asking price in May, new figures have shown – as the number of homes for sale rises. Some three per cent of properties sold for more than asking price in May, a report by the National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) showed, down from seven [...]
Mayor-backed London venture capital fund has helped create 700 jobs across the capital October 26, 2017 Five years on from when MMC Ventures established its London-focused fund, the venture capital firm has revealed it has pumped more than £100m into businesses and helped create over 700 jobs. The MMC London Fund has invested money into 19 London startups, including short-term retail let marketplace Appear Here, home ingredient delivery service Gousto, and [...]
UK house prices: London and the south east housing market slowdown drags down the UK average August 10, 2017 A slowdown in the London and the south east housing market has pulled down the UK average, according to the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics). A net balance of just one per cent of surveyors reported prices increasing instead of decreasing in July, down from seven per cent in June. This was the weakest [...]
New homes on sale this weekend, in London Fields, Richmond, Camberwell and two well-connected commuter towns November 2, 2017 Developments on the market this week Prime Place, Godalming From £375,000 Live close to one of the most prestigious independent schools in the country and a top commuter station. Charterhouse School is less than two miles away from Prime Place, a town centre housing development. A four bedroom penthouse is being unveiled tomorrow (Sat 4) [...]
Focus On Streatham: Where house price growth is nearly 9 per cent year-on-year, twice the London average September 4, 2017 If you have an SW postcode, think of yourself as one of the lucky ones. The average home in south west London now costs over £1m and it’s long been home to some of the most expensive streets in the country. But there is a way to live in an SW postcode without being a [...]
Where’s the beef? Meat substitutes are suddenly big business: we try the UK’s first plant-based ‘bleeding burger’ and ask if meat will one day be a thing of the past March 8, 2018 In the mockumentary Carnage, Simon Amstel imagines a future in which eating meat is as socially unacceptable as cannibalism. Groups of elderly people sit in therapy sessions trying to come to terms with the atrocities they committed against the animal kingdom, with the narrator quipping “‘Meat-free Monday’ now sounds about as appealing as ‘ethnic cleansing-free [...]
London house prices: A £90m Knightsbridge flat is the most expensive home on record August 31, 2017 The £90m purchase of an apartment in Knightsbridge is the most expensive residential property transaction ever recorded by the Land Registry, it turns out. Capital FM owner Ashley Tabor bought the massive four-bedroom penthouse flat at 199 Knightsbridge in April this year, with plans to knock it through into the apartment he owns next door [...]
City grandee John Connolly reveals Cogital’s rapid expansion, a £1bn target and plans for an IPO October 3, 2017 A rapidly expanding challenger to Britain’s biggest accounting firms will soon be beyond the reach of its Big Four rivals, its founder, the former head of Deloitte, said this morning. John Connolly, also the chair of G4S and Amec Foster Wheeler, told City A.M. Cogital is targeting more than £1bn of revenues and a potential [...]
The craft beer revolution has led many microbrewers to set up shop on regeneration sites – and developers are loving it November 15, 2017 There was a time in the recent past when the arrival of a farmers market signalled that your up-and-coming corner of London had practically up and went. Where once, organic cheese and sourdough were the harbingers of hipsterdom, now, it’s morel likely to be a microbrewery. Hop Stuff, founded by former City banker James Yeomans, [...]