Bovis Homes urged to pursue deal with Redrow over Galliford Try by top 10 investor Royal London Asset Management March 19, 2017 Bovis Homes has been urged to ditch Galliford Try merger talks for fellow rival Redrow by one of its top 10 investors. The suggestion by Royal London Asset Management, which owns a 3.5 per cent stake in Bovis, came as it emerged that Redrow is considering a revised offer. Read more: This is what analysts [...]
Are you living in the best place in Britain? Bristol named top by Sunday Times, while Peckham best in London March 19, 2017 Peckham has been named the best place to live in London, going from a "no-go" area to "hipster heaven". The south London area's improvement was credited partly to its abundance of grime DJs, in this year's Sunday Times Best Places to Live list. Other up and coming areas highlighted in the index include Canonbury, Walthamstow – [...]
Ranked: Average rent prices of the world’s top financial cities spanning London to Hong Kong to Frankfurt March 18, 2017 The capital's renters who work in the City may not be getting a raw deal when it comes to rent – at least not when London’s stacked up against the globe’s other top financial cities. London is the leading financial hub based on the latest rankings in the Global Financial Centres Index by the Z/Yen Group. That considers elements [...]
Holiday Homes: The property market in Lisbon is so hot right now, it’s being called ‘the California of Europe’ March 17, 2017 One of Europe’s most beautiful cities is also now one of its most vibrant and dynamic. For decades Lisbon’s development and historic architecture was neglected, but things are looking better for the city, tourism is up, unemployment down, and foreign money is bringing in new investment. One of the drivers of this surge in vitality [...]
Opinion: Here’s how to negotiate a lower rent if you’re living in London and throwing half your salary down the drain March 17, 2017 In the past six years, rents in London have increased by 23 percent, while the average salary has only inched upwards. Overall, under-30s are now spending almost 60 percent of their income on rent. With many of us facing the prospect of being pushed further and further out of the capital, it’s crucial we take [...]
Property of the Week: Ingleton Street in Stockwell used to be a garage – now it’s a £750,000 party pad March 17, 2017 Thirsty punters sitting outside the Crown and Anchor on Brixton Road often stop and stare at the building opposite on Ingleton Street. Who can blame them? It looks like someone has attempted to hide an architect’s studio by covering it in doilies. “It’s a self-confessed vanity project,” says Marlon Lloyd Malcolm, director of sales at [...]
Big Ben to the Shard: See how London’s skyline has changed (and what could have been) over 100 years March 17, 2017 In 1930 London's tallest buildings included Battersea Power Station, Big Ben and St Paul's. A century later, those buildings will not only be dwarfed by modern icons like the Shard, the Walkie Talkie and the Cheesegrater, but soon-to-appear 22 Bishopsgate and the Mitsubishi Tower. Then there are the towers that could have been – the [...]
Focus On Twickenham: Families flock to TW1 for period houses, riverside walks, and a 25min commute March 17, 2017 As the Six Nations tournament comes to a close this Saturday, all eyes are on Twickenham. This leafy south west London suburb may buzz with life around match days – with the thoroughfare between Twickenham station and the stadium getting particularly boisterous – but the rest of the time, it’s the picture of modern, aspirational [...]
Where in London can you afford to rent on your own? March 17, 2017 How big a salary do you need to rent on your own in London? We made the map below to give an indication. Dark red = more than £100,000 Red = more than £50,000 Orange = more than £40,000 Yellow = more than £30,000 Green = more than £20,000 [Note: these are only guidelines based on [...]
Build to Rent schemes are leading the way when it comes to welcoming lets with pets, but when will landlords follow suit? March 17, 2017 Dogs may be man’s best friend, but they’re also a leaseholder’s nightmare. A couple who bought a £1m penthouse in Limehouse, east London, found that out the hard way last month, when a judge found in favour of their management company who upheld a “no pets policy” banning their Yorkshire-Maltese cross from living on the [...]