Into the battle to save the soul of football marches an unlikely possible hero. Paul Kemsley, best-known as a mate of Sir Philip Green, Sir Alan Sugar and Mike Ashley, has a plan. Don't rush to judge... more
Exclusive: Spurs boss dismisses idea he’s a wheeler-dealer and reveals himself to be a family man whose idea of happiness is an evening with his wife... more
Legal & General, the UK’s biggest pension fund manager, was today in talks about buying property assets from Lloyds Banking Group, according to insiders ... more
The sale of trophy assets in Paul Kemsley’s £500 million Rock property empire is underway with the former Burberry headquarters and Selhurst Park expected to attract bumper bids ... more
Lloyds Banking Group today sold a 10% stake in London-based residential property developer Quintain Estates & Development, which it acquired along with duff bank HBOS earlier this year, notching up a thumping loss of almost £100 million ... more
Congratulations to Jeffrey Robinson for his ghosting skills. For he has caught perfectly the gruff, proud and sporadically aggrieved voice of Gerald Ronson in an autobiography of the property developer published this week. Gerald Ronson: Leading From The Front — My Story (Mainstream £18.99) reads as if the great man himself barked his life story into a Dictaphone, had his PA type it up, and then sent to the printers with strict orders that not a word be changed ... more
Property: Plans to turn the celebrated former Midland Bank building, whose vaults starred as Fort Knox in the 1964 Bond film Goldfinger, into London's first six-star hotel have been thrown into disarray after the owner defaulted on a £72 million loan... more
A sour Lucinda Ledgerwood dubbed the headquarters of Sir Alan Sugar's business empire 'bland' after becoming the latest candidate to be sacked from The Apprentice.... more
Lucinda Ledgerwood, 32, was the latest contestant to be fired from BBC TV's The Apprentice last night. After a torrid time being interviewed by Sir Alan's advisers, she said she was not disappointed to miss out on the job, dismissing it as a 'sales' position.... more
Shaftesbury, the owner of vast swathes of Carnaby Street, Chinatown and Covent Garden, says the West End property market is booming despite the slowdown elsewhere in the country... more
Guests including Elle Macpherson, Jeremy Irons and Robert Lindsay will pay £2,500 each for lobster and roast beef at a charity meal for the cash-strapped Old Vic.... more
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