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Dragons’ Den star James Caan has teamed up with Spire Ventures founder Faisal Butt to back a new real estate investment company. QuoinStone Investment Management, which was founded in February, is targeting value-add assets and aims to…
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London overtook New York as the biggest real estate exposure for Norway’s $1 trillion wealth fund in 2017. A report from Norway's Global Government Pension Fund — the biggest sovereign wealth fund by assets under management — shows the fund…
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A buyer from the Middle East has spent more than £100 million on two penthouses in a new development in Mayfair. The unnamed buyer is understood to have bought two flats in British Land’s Clarges Mayfair scheme on Piccadilly, which offers…
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The average landlord who sold their rental property in 2017 made a gain of £86,651, figures show. Landlords in London gained significantly more at £253,981 – over four times more than those selling outside the capital. In fact, one in four…
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An investment firm set up by property mogul Nick Leslau has bought the terror attack-hit Manchester Arena as part of a £436 million spending spree. The acquisition by Secure Income Reit comes 10 months after the arena’s bombing during a…
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An Irish property tycoon has won a long-fought battle to buy Brixton’s covered markets in south London. The famous market has been sold for £37.3 million to a private group of real estate companies, which includes Limerick-born property…
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The freehold to a block of flats in Birmingham, regarded as the worst example of leasehold abuse in the country, has been bought for £180,000. It means buyers of the small one-bedroom flats – who thought they would be paying just £250 a…
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The billionaire Reuben brothers have bought a building in New York which looks set to become an American outpost of 5 Hertford Street, the exclusive private members club in Mayfair. David and Simon Reuben paid about $40 million (£28.5…
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The billionaire Reuben brothers have agreed to buy a property on London’s Pall Mall for £35 million, further adding to their sizeable estate in the capital. It comes after the duo were revealed to have pulled out of backing businesswoman…
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This article was sponsored by our partners at ZPG.  What will happen to the house building market in 2018? If you’re investing in land, or deciding what type of housing will appeal most on the site area you’ve acquired you need to…
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Wealthy investors from the Middle East spent an incredible £1.28 billion on London commercial property in one year, figures reveal. London is the top destination for Middle Eastern investors, who own more than 24 million square feet of the…
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Cheung Kei Group, the Chinese property group headed up by the owner of Hong Kong’s most expensive mansion, has bought the former London headquarters of Bear Stearns for £270 million. The group has bought 5 Churchill Place in Canary Wharf…
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Zoopla owner ZPG has snapped up a Netherlands-based property company, just weeks after its massive takeover bid for GoCompare was overwhelmingly rejected. ZPG, which also owns GoCompare rival USwitch, made a secret takeover bid for…
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A London-based property consultant has launched a company that helps people to shift their homes via a raffle process. Lara Buckler, 28, is starting the business with the sale of her own flat in Nunhead, South London. Raffle entrants pay £2…
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Some DMZ'ers may have heard the term 'Airspace Development' before. Maybe you feigned knowledge and nodded when it was mentioned at a networking event, "yes, I know it's based around building in the airspace above properties and it seems…
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A 19 year-old entrepreneur has managed to create an online estate agent valued at £12 million in the space of just 12 months. Akshay Ruparelia, from Harrow in North East London, launched Doorsteps.co.uk with the aim of providing good…
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