Why It’s Still a Good Idea to Invest in Agriculture
Back in the spring I wrote about the investment qualities of the UK agricultural sector and its viability as an…
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Why the Mortgage Market Review is Good News for HNWs and Entrepreneurs
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A little over halfway through the year and we are not in the position we expected to be in this…
ByPrime London Residential Market Remains Resilient in the Face of Recession
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ByWhy the Olympics Won’t Raise Property Prices
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ByKnight Frank: London prime property prices up 13% on 2008 peak, challenges weigh
Prices are now more than 13% higher than the previous market peak in early 2008, but stamp duty and the…
BySecond Homes: Increased Possession or Repossession?
The Noughties may well be remembered, amongst other things, for the boom in second home ownership. Indeed as the decade…
ByChesterton Humberts: Is Finsbury Park the next property investment location?
The prime London residential market typically conjures up images of attractive period properties in locations such as Mayfair, Kensington and…
ByAirbnb: A Room for All Seasons
Spare capacity is usually a term economists chuck about when they want to say we could all be working a…
ByWhy is London so Popular with International HNWs?
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ByTax Relief on Holiday Homes: The Good and the Bad News
Vat Out of Hell Ross Clark on the infuriating tax legislation that’s turning the potentially attractive option of owning a…
ByUK Prime Property Market Will Survive a Eurozone Collapse
While the rest of the country’s residential markets continue to languish in the doldrums (although Chesterton Humberts’ country offices have…
ByBudget 2012: The Implications for UK Residential Property
We were expecting some painful pronouncements regarding residential property at this year’s budget as the Chancellor had warned us about…
ByIceberg Houses: The Trend for Digging Basements
Great Excavations It’s currently the height of fashion to plumb the depths and build a fancy basement beneath your London…
ByThe Case for Investing in UK Property
By Nicholas Barnes, head of Research at Chesterton Humberts We may not like to admit it, but the fruitful economic…
ByProperty Owners To Wait Until 2026 for HS2 Compensation
PROPERTY CONSULTANCY KNIGHT Frank has warned that some property owners likely to be affected by the proposed high-speed rail link…
ByNew Government Planning Guidelines Threaten English Villages
It’s Sprawl Over Now Since the middle of the 20th century restrictive planning laws have helped preserve the charm of…
ByProperty Guru Sergey Sander on Relocating Russian and Asian HNWs to Switzerland
Sander Castles Russian and Asian HNWs need more help buying property in the likes of Switzerland than estate agents provide.…
ByRubenstein on One Sandy Lane
A Residence Apart Who lives in a house like this? William Cash is sure that there are billionaires out there…
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