Real estate
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Estate agents in Clapham, south London, saw deal frenzy after higher stamp duty announced in autumn statement
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Buyers spend their savings making higher offers while estate agents see sales rise the morning after autumn statement
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Songbird investors have two months to consider £2.6bn cash bid from Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Brookfield
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Nils Pratley: Behind the verbal gymnastics, the eurozone economy sinks to its knees.
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London estate agents deluged by wealthy purchasers beating midnight deadline before housing tax rise
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Sovereign wealth fund and its Canadian partners increase offer for Songbird Estates just before regulatory deadline
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London council proposes action after revealing 30% of homes built in last six years have nobody on the electoral register
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Patrick Collinson: It is no surprise estate agents support the chancellor’s new stamp duty – sellers will want buyers’ savings added to the price
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Chancellor highlights plans for corporate tax clampdown but has little cash for giveaways with deficit higher than predicted
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It seems no amount of homebuilding or flood defences will stop the Lib Dems being washed away in next year’s election
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A flat that was sold in the spring for £1m is now on sale for £1.5m – and it hasn’t been built yet
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There is sadness on the streets about the closure of the landmark venue – but optimism about the future of the area
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Developer says it has had further talks with it suitors since rejecting previous offer, but they have made no further proposal
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Westminster council revoked the club’s licence this week, while Soho Estates’ plan for the area was approved in December 2013
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In some boroughs house prices went up by more than the prime minister was paid in the year 2013-14
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Parliamentary committee finds ‘virtually non-existent’ sanctions, no prosecutions and inadequate data on purchases
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A pay package of up to £25m for incoming chief executive Helge Lund is crazy and should be rejected by BG’s shareholders
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For years, relentless gentrification has been squeezing the life out of the infamous district. The closure of Madame Jojo’s feels like the nail in its coffin, writes Pete Clark
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Wealthy international buyers are apparently undeterred by Ed Miliband’s proposed mansion tax
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Building society says net mortgage lending slumped by £2bn to £3.6bn in the six months to the end of September
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Mortgage lender predicts general election and rising interest rates will create a ‘better balance’ in supply and demand for housing
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British Bankers’ Association finds new mortgage approvals at a 17-month low, while remortgages are also in steep decline
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US investment firm says tenancies will continue unchanged into 2015, but residents say statement has not allayed their fears
Estate families at mercy of international speculators
Video: Residents fight back against US owners -
Still here: reflections on later life What do the Masai in Tanzania and tenants on Hoxton’s New Era estate have in common?
Michele Hanson: both face eviction by Christmas. Is it any wonder the news is getting me down?
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Lauren Cochrane: Gentrification has transformed the former east London hangout of artists and designers, but the area’s best years are being remembered in a one-man show
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ONS figures show homes are UK’s most valuable non-financial asset, worth more than three times their estimated 1997 value
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Letters: Every penny Peabody generates is reinvested to provide more affordable homes, and to enable us to continue our investment in quality homes
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The story behind the threat of eviction facing residents of an estate in east London which now belongs to a US private equity firm
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Aditya Chakrabortty: Homes across the capital have turned into international assets and their residents now merely live in financial instruments
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Estate agent believes London’s luxury property market will stall before general election as Labour plans levy to boost NHS funds
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ONS data shows average UK house price in September was £273,000, down from a record £274,000 in August
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Rightmove says high prices and new mortgage lending rules have put a temporary brake on the ‘mini-boom’
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US-based Westbrook Partners reneges on deal not to raise rents again until 2016, after Tory MP’s firm quits consortium
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Financial woes and design glitches have not stopped London’s skyscrapers from changing hands for dizzy sums
Ian Jack on Saturday I had thought the New Era estate might spark a London revolution. I was wrong