Making peace with the price of Bitcoin and slowly stacking the Sats July 16, 2021 Another week of lacklustre market performance, low volumes and consistent talk of a possible capitulation by Bitcoin.
Five years since Brexit: four charts to show UK shares could be returning to favour July 9, 2021 As Brexit negotiations reached their denouement late last year UK investors sensed the outlook for their home market improving. The Schroders 2020 UK Financial Adviser Survey revealed 40% of respondents were looking to increase allocations to UK shares over the subsequent 12 months, see: Are investors adjusting to the new normal? Six months on, with a “no-deal” outcome [...]
City Moves: Who’s switching jobs in the Square Mile this week? June 16, 2021 City A.M.‘s Millie Turner provides a roundup of the most important hires and job moves across the City, every Wednesday afternoon. Email citymoves@cityam.com to be featured. CBRE board bags ex-BlackRock real estate lead A former head of global real estate at investment heavyweight BlackRock is set to join real estate services firm CBRE in June. Marcus Sperber [...]
Autumn Budget 2017: Where first-time buyers will find the biggest stamp duty savings after it’s scrapped on property under £300,000 November 22, 2017 First-time buyers are being treated by the chancellor to a helping hand (albeit small) when it comes getting on the property ladder. Philip Hammond abolished stamp duty on homes under £300,000 for them – something that is expected to help out 80 per cent of newbies. Halifax has handily calculated just how much first-time buyers [...]
January deals flat as uncertainty weighs on housing market February 21, 2019 Buyers and sellers in Britain’s housing market remained subdued in January, as stamp duty and Brexit uncertainty added to the traditional New Year slowdown. Data released this morning from HMRC has found that residential deals nudged up by 0.8 per cent between December and January, marking a 1.3 per cent rise on the same period [...]
Opinion: Lloyd’s Lend a Hand mortgage is a great deal for the bank, but is it any good for borrowers? February 15, 2019 A “new” mortgage called ‘Lend a Hand’ from Lloyds made the headlines last week – well, the real headline was the 100 per cent Loan-to-Value, which brought back memories of the financial crisis. Digging deeper into the mortgage itself, this product may well help first-time buyers, provided they are very careful, but, really, it is [...]
London to buck UK trend with uptick in 2020 housing sales completions November 25, 2020 London is expected to buck the national trend to record an uptick in housing sales completions this year, according to the latest research. Completed sales across the UK are expected to fall six per cent compared to last year, an improvement on the original forecast of a 15 per cent drop, as the housing market [...]
How badly will coronavirus hit UK house prices in 2020? July 29, 2020 Property experts hope a stamp duty holiday and relaxed lockdown restrictions will protect UK house prices from a sharp coronavirus fall this year. At the height of lockdown, experts predicted that UK house prices could fall by as much as 10 per cent this year due to the impact of coronavirus. However, chancellor Rishi Sunak [...]
Easy with the AI and NFTs – we need monozukuri March 12, 2021 Monty Munford talks us through Mitsuru Kawai's delivery of monozukuri, NASA's lunar landing and the crazy world of digital art.
AgriDex selects L3COS and tokenisation for $9 trillion global food and agriculture marketplace March 10, 2021 Global food and agriculture industry supply chain platform AgriDex has selected L3COS to create its blockchain-based transparent marketplace.