The past, present and uncertain future of London’s great estates
I’d wager there’s not much that connects the mad, misused 17th-century heiress Mary Davies and Lindsay Lohan, 21st-century starlet manquée…
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Luxurious six-bedroom Primrose Hill house for sale
Elsworthy Road, Primrose Hill, London NW3Guide Price £19,850,000 FreeholdEPC/C An exceptional opportunity to purchase a substantial newly refurbished detached residence…
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‘Smallest house in the world’ goes on sale in Barnsbury for £275k
Author: Aoife Moriarty Despite a Halifax survey claiming a ‘cooling off’ in house prices today, a rather chucklesome example of…
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Bankrupt celebrities
Author: Zahra Al-Kateb Despite their fame and fortune, many celebrities have filed for bankruptcy, often due to ill-advised investments, overspending…
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Tax evasion could land you behind bars soon
Let us be clear from the start: tax evasion has always been illegal – but it could soon become a…
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Where are Britain’s most expensive streets?
Author: Zahra Al-Kateb In the latest Property Rich List 2014 from Zoopla, Kensington Palace Gardens has been named as Britain’s…
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Holiday.com could sell for £20m
Author: Zahra Al-Kateb The domain name www.holiday.com could become the most expensive domain name in history when it is auctioned…
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How philanthropy helps combat political barriers to social progress
It was in October of last year that I wrote about a chilling political mood for charity campaigning*. In the…
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Should banks be wary of the tech giants’ foray into finance?
Matthew Hardeman reports on the wave of anxiety washing over wealth managers from San Francisco to Shanghai FACEBANK? Tech companies…
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Why are so many prime properties in central London lying vacant?
Would you leave your Ferrari out on the street for months on end, unused and gathering dust? Probably not. Yet…
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Do HMRC’s changes mean you’ll have to pay inheritance tax before you die?
Much has been made in the press recently of HMRC’s consultation on changes to how it polices tax avoidance. The…
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HMRC toughens up on voluntary disclosure via Liechtenstein
On 14 August 2014 HMRC announced a number of significant changes to the Liechtenstein Disclosure Facility (LDF) which have removed…
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New data: The cities where billionaires are born
More than one in every 100 billionaires are created in London (1.25 per cent), according to an analysis based on…
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UK economy grows at fastest rate since 2007
A first revision of second quarter GDP data shows the UK economy is now stronger than it was at its…
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HMRC’s whiplash tax change will leave res non-doms with sore wallets
For some, August means sandy beaches, chilled rosé and long summer evenings. However, for the UK Revenue, August 2014 meant…
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Charities should have their own version of A-Level Clearing to simplify getting grants
Tomorrow is A-level results day. It’s a hugely important moment for seventeen- and eighteen-year olds across England and Wales, one…
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Russia’s new dual citizenship law threatens administrative chaos – and worse
The Russian Federation’s new law criminalising its citizens’ failure to disclose any foreign nationality betrays the current mood of the…
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Did Facebook and OKCupid break the law with their experiments on users?
The recent revelation that the dating website OKCupid ‘experimented’ on its users by purposefully making statistically ‘bad’ matches look ‘good’,…
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Prest divorce case takes a turn towards prison
Those who followed the case will recall that in his divorce, Mr Prest argued his wealth was not his own…
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For non-doms, rules about summer holidays and impulse buys are complex
Having recently returned from a family holiday on an idyllic Greek island, I found myself considering the ‘vacation versus staycation’…
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