All Finance Features articles
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NewsPrime central London housing shines amid economic gloom
While the wider market outlook is uncertain, overseas buyers are driving a boom in high-end London housing.
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News
Housing prices starting to dip
Statistics released this week have shown signs that house prices are starting to dip, according to industry experts.
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News
JLL revenues jump 23% in Q4 2021
JLL has reported revenues of $5.9bn (£4.4bn) for the three months to the end of December 2021, up 23% on the previous quarter
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Insight
Income Analytics aiming to shake up real estate valuation
Income Analytics’ INCANS Score dashboard aims to transform real estate valuation by making income, rather than cap rates or rent multipliers, the key factor. Will it succeed, asks Property Week .
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Insight
Will CBILS come back to bite?
While the government’s financial support provided a much needed shot in the arm for smaller residential developers, experts warn that some may have over-leveraged themselves.
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Insight
A positive spin on negative rates
Is the much-touted prospect of interest rates going negative finally receding as we head into the spring with high hopes for a post-pandemic economic bounce?
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Insight
The rise of the bridging loan
As traditional lenders tighten their criteria during the pandemic, investors have increasingly turned to bridging finance. Property Week looks at the pros and cons of this alternative borrowing option.
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Insight
It’s make or break time for property debt
Covid-19 poses the biggest threat to debt markets since the 2008 crash. Property Week ask whether new lenders and private equity firms will plug the gap made by the major banks and seize emerging opportunities.
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Insight
Interview with Art-Invest Real Estate’s Ali Abbas
Art-Invest entered the UK market at a time of Brexit-related political chaos. Emanuele Midolo asks managing partner Ali Abbas why – and what’s next.
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Insight
Why L&G is investing £100m in Riverside Sunderland
Legal General has agreed to invest £100m in the ambitious – and potentially transformative – Riverside Sunderland project.
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News
A beginner’s guide to borrowing
Frances Ivens outlines the key steps novice borrowers should take to get the best debt deal in an uncertain political and economic climate
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Insight
How to hedge against interest rate risk
Guy Montague-Jones runs through the hedging process and outlines the potential pitfalls to avoid along the way
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Markets
Rising to the late-cycle challenge
As Europe reaches the late-cycle stage, core funds are having to make tough investment decisions.
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Markets
What is behind Asian investment in Europe?
A lack of compelling opportunities at home and the desire to diversify have driven a flood of Asian investment into European real estate markets.
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Insight
Open-ended funds: a tale of inertia
With open-ended funds under scrutiny again in the wake of the Woodford scandal, Victoria Lonsdale finds there is little prospect of the regulatory reform needed to prevent a re-run of the 2016 crisis
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Insight
How the rise of internet banking is hitting lenders’ high-street estates
As fewer people go to the counter and more use apps, what are the implications are for bank branches on the high street?
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Online
Arcadia Live: Rescue plan on a knife-edge as Arcadia lobbies landlords
INTU voting against rescue deals. Aviva, British Land and Hammerson voting in favour. LANDSEC’S position remains unknown, but its vote is now crucial to Arcadia’s survival. MEETING set to take place today at midday at 200 Aldersgate, near St Paul’s.
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Insight
Salary Survey 2019
Amid the Brexit gloom, the 20th RICS/Macdonald Company survey surprisingly finds reasons to be cheerful.
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Meet the matchmakers of real estate finance
Filling a gap that has emerged since the financial crisis, debt advisers aim to find the best deal from a growing pool of lenders. Guy Montague-Jones and Frances Ivens profile some of the market’s leading players
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Insight
Five key challenges facing borrowers
Ten years after the crash, the debt market is now considered healthy but some types of properties are still proving difficult to finance. Industry experts tell Guy Montague-Jones about the remaining problem areas
