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London developers are again busily flogging off-plan apartments to Asian investors. Prospective buyers would do well to ponder the lessons…
ByThe Loan Arranger
The rich are not really so different — even they need mortgages. And when they do, Wayne Coleman is their…
ByChina Syndrome
The Chinese property boom is likely to cause a global property meltdown, says Ross Clark EVERY NOVEMBER THE bigger estate-agent…
ByLock up Your Houses!
Ross Clark on the devious yet relatively simple means by which fraudsters can, figuratively speaking, make off with your real…
ByThe Great Mortgage Hunt
Mortgage-money is out there for those who know where to look, says David Sheppard It will not come as a…
ByGreen Shoots? Red Herrings
Is the property market heading for a V-shaped recovery or merely raising two fingers in a V-shaped gesture at over-hasty…
ByVillage Idiots
Clive Aslet on cranky neighbours, simmering resentments, barely contained hostilities and all the other summery joys of life in the…
ByThe Hidden Home Market
For the super-rich, the choicest houses are not those just anyone can see: ‘off market’ is very much on the…
ByLow Interest Rate
Ignore the estate-agent guff about troops of foreign buyers beating a path to their doors — they’re not. The London…
ByPunxsutawney Will
The social and economic maladies decried in the 19th-century writings of William Cobbett deliver a true Groundhog Day moment, says…
ByHi-Ho, Hi-Ho! It’s Off the Cliff We Go!
Jeremy McGivern on the flawed logic and mindless herd instinct that led so many property investors over the edge and…
ByFreehold Willie
Property fund manager Willie Gething is keeping his head while all about him are losing their houses — and his…
ByBernie Madoff Syndrome
Jeremy McGivern wonders why property investors never stopped to consider that what comes up must go down Bernie Madoff’s Ponzi…
ByOwe Dear
Turns out most of London’s super-prime property owners are mortgaged to the hilt and the bailiffs are starting to lick…
ByOn Your Mark
Anthony Haden-Guest meets James Sherwin, general manager of the Mark — the latest in a line of grand hotels being…
ByBy Georges, They’ve Got It
At last the gorgeous west coast of Cyprus has the super-luxe report it deserves in the comely form of Cap…
BySurf ‘n’ Turf
Don’t let the big-city real-estate meltdown put you off: investing in beachfront property or farmland is still a good bet,…
ByBuy Me to the Moon
Space on the ground in Manhattan is in desperately short supply, but luckily for developers there’s plenty of prime air…
ByCrib Chic
Raheem Brennerman has a very clear idea about how the owners of the properties he builds and furnishes get to…
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