On property: At the Mansion House on Tuesday, architect Lee Polisano asked an audience of 150 - who were there to learn how the City might look in 25 years - if they had heard of the Chinese city of Ningbo. One hand hesitantly rose... more
There should be no surprise that a well-thumbed copy of the Financial Times' How To Spend It supplement has been found in one of Colonel Gaddafi's residences in Libya... more
Gerald Ronson says his 230-metre Heron Tower in Bishopsgate cost £500 million to build but will be worth £600 million when full of tenants. That will make him happy... more
Gerald Ronson declared the 775-ft Heron Tower on Bishopsgate finished on Tuesday during his annual lunch at the Dorchester. All that remains is to fill the 443,000 square feet of office space... more
Having run out of interesting things to say about the Budget - not difficult - the Treasury has resorted to tweeting the fact that it is running a survey to "help us improve our website and other digital channels"... more
Multi-millionaire told of his 'moment of irrationality' when he used a shotgun to silence a neighbours' burglar alarm next door to his £10 million St John's Wood home
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Where will this election be won and lost? We’ve had references to Motorway Man, the two-car-owning middle manager who lives on a new estate near a motorway. Now we've got Morrisons man... more
Among the acres of adulation about David Gold and David Sullivan “rescuing” West Ham United, there has been little mention of the means by which they gained their fortunes... more
Gerald Ronson was positioning himself today for a return to the UK commercial property market by founding a club of wealthy investors to take advantage of price falls ... more
In Gerald Ronson’s new book, Leading from the Front, the veteran Heron boss recalls his time at Ford Open Prison, when he acted as kitchen porter
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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
Welcome to the bottom of the commercial property market. It must be, for today the world's biggest property agent says so. "The time to buy UK property is now," reckons CB Richard Ellis... more
The super-rich still love London, keeping prices at the top end high. Across the city there remains a shortage of homes but building is slowing in the crunch.
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Daisy Lowe was back in the arms of her ex last night — but it was not her former squeeze Mark Ronson. The 19-year-old has found solace in the arms of her ex-boyfriend Will Cameron.... more
In a rare personal interview Gerald Ronson, the property tycoon who came back from the Guinness scandal, reveals his prescription for surviving the downturn... more
Model and ingenue Daisy Lowe was seen out with super-producer Mark Ronson for the first time last night, as the couple announced their new coupling on the London social scene... more
As the Electoral Commission investigates the way Ken Livingstone's re-election bid is funded, we reveal his personal backing for London's most powerful developers ... more
Yesterday's news that Ken Livingstone took a secret donation from property developer Gerald Ronson - after backing his plan for a 46-storey tower block - is even worse than it looks... more
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