Investors

Well-known PropTech advisers James Dearsley and Eddie Holmes have formed a new start-up called Unissu after raising £150,000 of pre-seed funding. Unissu is an online database of companies in the property technology market, which includes…
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Property technology company Goodlord has secured an additional £7 million of funding from investors. Goodlord’s software platform aims to make renting simple and more transparent by enabling letting agents to streamline the tenancy…
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Deposits have been a contentious issue since the late 1990s when the then Labour government woke up to their widespread misuse by rogue agents and landlords. Despite a report in 1998 by Citizens Advice that documented widespread pilfering…
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The Financial Times’ building on the south bank of the Thames is being put up for sale for around £90 million ahead of the newspaper’s move to the City of London. Agents at Knight Frank are launching a sale of the freehold this month on…
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Norway’s sovereign wealth fund has bought an office and retail property in London that used to be the headquarters of technology giant Amazon. The fund has snapped up a 100% stake in the building at 60 Holborn Viaduct for £321.3 million.…
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Theresa May has proposed introducing a new levy on foreign buyers of UK properties in an attempt to tackle the country’s housing crisis. The plans would see foreign buyers pay extra stamp duty to fund a drive to tackle rough sleeping.…
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Amazon has made its first investment in a housebuilder – the California-based start-up, Plant Prefab. The company uses sustainable construction processes and materials to build prefabricated custom single- and multi-family houses. Plant…
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Property tycoon Robert Tchenguiz could see his £20 million Hyde Park townhouse being handed over to receivers in a legal dispute stemming from the Icelandic banking crisis. Tchenguiz, who lives with his 27-year-old girlfriend Julia Dybowska…
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Emily Evans’ journey from broken home to property mogul with a portfolio worth nearly £1.4 million is a real rags-to-riches story. What’s even more impressive is that Evans managed to build up her huge portfolio before hitting 30 years-old.…
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Alan Collett, manager of the TM Home Investor Fund, has claimed the buy-to-let market is not dead and still holds opportunities for investors. Despite rising interest rates, the withdrawal of tax relief on mortgage interest and a stamp duty…
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Recently valued at $2.3 billion after closing a $100 million funding round, challenger bank OakNorth is turning the world of property financing on its head. The bank has backed some major projects in recent times, including two new…
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Hedge funds reckon Britain’s out-of-town shopping centres will be the latest victims of the massive challenges facing high street retailers. Previously, shopping centres were thought to be more compelling destinations for shoppers and so…
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South Koreans are expected to invest a record amount of money into the City of London’s property market this year. Savills, the property consultancy, reckons total investment will reach £3 billion in 2018, making them the largest foreign…
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Around 430 vacant railway arches could be reopened across London, following the £1.5 billion purchase of Network Rail’s commercial property portfolio. Property investors Blackstone and Telereal Trillium have won a bid to buy 5,200…
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Proptech companies have been creating increasing noise within the property industry as their investor-backed operations have promised to change how homes are sold, rented and managed for ever. We look at how this relatively fledgling…
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Property developer and seafood magnate Mark Holyoake has reportedly paid fellow property entrepreneurs Christian and Nick Candy £5.7m in damages as a result of his failed claim against them. Back in 2011 Holyoake borrowed £12m from former…
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