Clearly stung by the IMF's decision to back George Osborne's economic plans and his refusal to adopt Plan B on the deficit, David "Danny" Blanchflower is on the offensive... more
It is often said that property is like no other business: most of the time to be successful demands special skills, but not always. In some circumstances, success is nothing to do with the actions of management... more
Takeover fever strickes the property sector again as global giant Jones Lang LaSalle's £197 million swoop for rival King Sturge created 85 overnight millionaires at the business... more
What is about Air Marshall Sir John Walker, ex-spymaster at the Defence Intelligence Service (DIS) and one of the City's great and the good, and con artists?... more
Investment banking giant Goldman Sachs' Peterborough Court headquarters in Fleet Street has been formally put up for sale with a £300 million price tag.... more
Organisations face heavy fines, and executives up to 10 years in jail for offering a bribe - and that includes entertaining someone at your expense... more
It emerges that Andrew Mitchell gave help to British cocoa magnate Anthony “Chocfinger” Ward after receiving £40,000 in donations from Ward’s company Armajaro Holdings... more
Large swathes of London are set to be transformed by the wealth of Qatar as figures reveal that money from the Middle East and Far East is dominating the capital's property market... more
Mark Morris and Maurice Golker have a very big decision to make in the coming weeks. This virtually unknown pair of property investors control a major site in the City. They are on the verge of submitting plans for a huge office block on the 2.8 acres of land in EC3. But is building a huge office block a terribly bright idea right now?... more
Taking London's Pulse: Vauxhall was once a pleasure-seeker's paradise. In the past decade, the area best known as a transport thoroughfare again became a pull for the party people. Meanwhile, neighbour Battersea attracted the yuppie overspill from across the Thames... more
There was a sombre mood at this year’s Arabian Travel Market, the annual industry get-together in Dubai. All the talk was of falling revenues, cutting costs and swine flu
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Pimlico has had a poor press. Some may still see it as a Belgravia wannabe, but the area has come a long way since GK Chesterton decried its poverty-struck streets as a "desperate thing"... more
The once-mighty Mipim international property trade fair in Cannes next week will see nearly 10,000 fewer people attending than last year as the economic crisis keeps delegates from London and around the world at home... more
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