Demand for London offices hits post-financial crisis high April 14, 2025 Demand for office space in Greater London and the South East rose to its highest first-quarter level since the financial crisis in 2025, according to new data. Around 1.2m sq ft of space was let in London during the first quarter of 2025, up 39 per cent on the final quarter of 2024, according to [...]
A decade of departures: Moscow only city with worse millionaire exodus than London April 9, 2025 If Knight Frank’s inaugural Global Cities survey was anything to go by, London had the world at its feet in 2013. Respondents to the property giant’s annual poll of global wealth advisers declared the UK capital—not Singapore, Geneva, or any of America’s embarrassment of global cities—the ‘most important city in the world’ to their ultra-high-net-worth [...]
Knight Frank makes the City its global headquarters April 8, 2025 Knight Frank, the global asset management and real estate giant, has signed a deal to relocate its global headquarters to the City of London. The business will relocate from its current HQ at London & Regional’s 55 Baker Street in the West End, where it has been since 2008, to One Liverpool Street after penning an [...]
Robert De Niro sees double in gangland thriller The Alto Knights April 7, 2025 Robert De Niro stars opposite himself in The Alto Knights, a mafia drama based on a true story. It follows the power struggle between Frank Costello (De Niro), the kingpin of New York’s organised crime syndicate; and Vito Genovese (also De Niro), an embittered boss and childhood friend of Frank’s. When Vito orders a hit [...]
‘The deal was done before the starters arrived’: Fundment CEO on the art of the business lunch March 27, 2025 Fundment founder Ola Abdul secured £45m earlier this year. He tells us how he did it, including the art of the business lunch.
The Punter Podcast Episode 21: The Flat is back! March 26, 2025 Tom Marriott and Bill Esdaile take a look at Saturday’s traditional Flat season curtain-raiser at Doncaster. William Knight dials in to discuss his three runners, plus two for the notebook, while Wally Pyrah has the latest from Hong Kong. The Punter ‘The Punter’ has been City AM’s dedicated sports betting section for over a decade [...]
New £1bn west London data centre set to back soaring AI demand March 25, 2025 Segro and Pure Data Centres have announced a new £1bn data centre located in London’s Park Royal, set to meet the soaring demand for digital infrastructure in the UK. The centre, backed by secretary Peter Kyle, is set for completion in 2026, with operations expected from 2029. The project will support next-generation AI and cloud [...]
Glamorous world of the Edwardians to be explored in major exhibition at The King’s Gallery March 24, 2025 This spring, a major exhibition at The King’s Gallery, Buckingham Palace will immerse visitors in the glamour and opulence of the Edwardian era. The Edwardians: Age of Elegance will explore the lives and tastes of two of Britain’s most fashionable royal couples – King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, and King George V and Queen [...]
IPL: The cricket sensation causing a betting bonanza March 23, 2025 Cricket’s biggest show returned this weekend with the 18th season of the Indian Premier League (IPL) getting underway in Kolkata. And while online betting is restricted in India – to such categories as the lottery and horse racing – there’s a growing international gambling market interested in the Twenty20 league. Ironically the Chennai Super Kings [...]
Super-prime London property market ‘flourishing’ despite non-dom reforms March 21, 2025 "London is London, and 2023 and 2024 weren't the best years in the real estate world in general, But the good news is that the UK luxury market has been a little more resilient," Mike Golden co-founder of Christie's International Real Estate (CIRE) said.