What’s On in London November 2025 November 5, 2025 | City Talk London is set for a busy November, and if you love food, be ready for a celebration! The city is presenting a stunning and diverse selection of dining choices this month, featuring everything from attractive restaurant deals to exclusive, limited-run offers at countless eateries. It’s a fun month with something for everyone, and your taste [...]
London house price growth to lag behind rest of UK until at least 2030 November 5, 2025 The capacity for house prices growing in London over the next five years is limited, according to property giant Savills, while Scottish and Northern prices are set to soar. By 2030, prices in the North West of England are expected to rise nearly a third to sit just 15 per cent below the UK average, [...]
London’s Leaders Demand Fairer Policies to Protect Central London’s Beating Heart November 4, 2025 | City Talk At the “London – Opportunities and Obstacles for Growth” event hosted by Central London Alliance CIC at The Emmanuel Centre, Westminster, leading voices including from across hospitality, travel and tourism united in a powerful discussion on the future of one of London’s most vital economic sectors. Chaired by Christian May, Editor-in-Chief of City A.M., the [...]
Booming Manchester outshines ‘stagnant’ London November 4, 2025 Greater Manchester’s booming economy is outstripping the rest of the country and throwing into sharp relief the “stagnant” state London has found itself in since the 2008 financial crisis, according to a new report. As Chancellor Rachel Reeves sets out the productivity challenges facing the UK ahead of the Budget, new analysis from Oxford Economics [...]
London Finance Panel Calls for Targeted Reform to Safeguard the City’s Trillion Capital Market Asset November 3, 2025 | City Talk The Central London Alliance’s (CLA) event, London: Opportunities and Obstacles for Growth, featured a high-level panel on the future of London’s financial services that looked closely at Capital Markets and Financial Planning for the city. Panellists Akash Kapoor, Charles Hall, Christian May and James Quarmby delivered a measured but firm message on the essential reforms [...]
London should be the engine that saves us from decline November 3, 2025 We should be proud of our great city, but also clear-eyed about its failings on housing, crime and the cost of living, says Lawrence Newport London is like nowhere else on earth. As Matt Clifford said last week at Looking For Growth’s event Make or Break, London is the city that birthed the electrical age, [...]
Banned China tech firms lobbied for London embassy November 2, 2025 Chinese tech firms banned on national security grounds in both the UK and the United States lobbied for Beijing’s new embassy in London, growing fears it could be used as an overseas “spy centre”. State-controlled company ZTE Mobile, which was deemed by GCHQ to pose a risk to British telecommunications infrastructure that “cannot be mitigated”, [...]
Londoners race to invest as the rest of the country falls behind October 31, 2025 Londoners are gearing up to invest in the stock market in 2026 but the rest of the country is failing to shift away from cash savings. According to fresh research from wealth manager Stratiphy, nearly 70 per cent of Londoners are planning on investing in the next 12 months, in a bid to secure higher [...]
Super-rich ditch London mansions for flats, developer says October 30, 2025 London’s super-rich are swapping mansions for pieds-à-terre as they seek to wind down their presence in the UK or exit altogether, one of the top developers in the capital has said. Alex Michelin, co-founder of Valouran, said many high net worth individuals (HNWIs) remained attracted to London but were scaling down their property investment to [...]
New 1,200-home neighbourhood unveiled in Elizabeth Line-linked Southall October 30, 2025 A new 1,200-home neighbourhood has been unveiled in Southall as the city continues to expand out along the Elizabeth line. Quarter Yards will deliver 1,273 new homes and over 105,000 sq ft of commercial space. Marcus Blake, managing director at one of the developers, St George, said he has seen “strong demand” for housing in [...]