Is social investment a solution to the housing crisis?
Homelessness in the UK made the headlines again last week, with the latest figures worrying reading. Over 56,000 households were…
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MPs hung up on Vodafone tax escape
‘PUBLIC SPENDING WATCHDOGS claim [Vodafone] has a moral duty to hand over some of its gains to taxpayers’ read the…
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Some houses (and clients) you fall in love with
‘You know, darling, she’s got that quality, she just lifts a room when she walks into it.’ I knew what…
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See inside the £5.25m One Hyde Park flat which has been repossessed
When you hear a house has been repossessed, London’s most expensive luxury development isn’t the first place you’d think of.…
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How to make money out of the environment – while saving it
To some eyes, the mountainous shrublands that cover the high Andean slopes above Bogotá look like an unproductive wasteland; indeed,…
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See inside the ’5.25m One Hyde Park flat which has been repossessed
When you hear a house has been repossessed, London’s most expensive luxury development isn’t the first place you’d think of…
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Johan Eliasch on why he’s saving millions of acres of rainforest
Johan Eliasch, chairman and CEO of sporting-goods group Head, founded Cool Earth to work with local communities to protect forests…
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Back to business as unusual
And so we’re back: la rentrée is in full flow, computers are whirring, distracting apps on our devices are deactivated,…
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Reuters: France adds Jersey, Bermuda and BVI to tax haven blacklist
PARIS, Aug 29 (Reuters) – France has added Jersey, Bermuda and the British Virgin Islands to its list of uncooperative…
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Mansion tax will have to start at £1.25m, capturing 140,000 homes, to raise promised amount
The Knight Frank report, entitled Taxing High Value Homes, shows that a mansion tax on homes worth £2 million or…
ByDay of the remains: after Richard III was recovered, who owns your corpse?
It wasn’t surprising that there was a huge amount of press coverage when archaeologists at Leicester University uncovered Richard III’s…
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Farmland starts to hit Mayfair prices
The report, from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, has found that since 2004 farmland has risen to around £7,441…
ByWhen a super-basement turns out to be a super-pain
When is enough enough? The recent reports that a hedge funder is spending £4 million building a subterranean complex in…
ByWhat’s the best way to give to the Syrian refugee crisis?
As the civil war in Syria becomes more acute, so too does the refugee crisis in neighbouring countries. Since the…
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STEP: Julius Baer data thief sentenced to jail
Lutz Otte sold the account information to the German tax authorities for EUR1.1 million in order to pay his own…
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The bonus gender gap reveals that top companies still don’t recognise equal pay for equal work
Women in senior management are being paid bonuses that are only half those of men in identical positions, a survey…
ByThe future of gold
Demand from governments and private investors for gold and other commodities suggests that, contrary to popular opinion, the latest super-cycle…
ByAfter Saatchi and Lawson, we uncover the truth about domestic violence among the wealthy
BLACK AND BLUE AND GOLD ‘What you’re seeking is the nurturing and the love following the violence. If you’re willing…
ByThe three reasons bankers fire their clients
IT’S NOT ME, IT’S YOU! The credit crunch and regulatory reform have made the lives of private bankers more complicated…
ByThe solution to chilly English country houses
‘A Norwegian recently told me he had never felt cold in his life until he came to live in a…
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