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A message for London in China's big fashion project

21.10.11
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

City Spy: John Lewis sale with £135m ticket

19.10.11
So, the John Lewis Partnership is to have another pop at selling its well-positioned depot in Chelsea for redevelopment... more

City Spy: Sony's new instrument of torture

03.10.11
How much do Sony's employees know about their own boss... more

City Spy: That's rich! Gaddafi link with Pink 'Un

31.08.11
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

City Spy: A reward out of the blue for Ronson skyscraper builder

07.04.11
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

Filling Heron Tower would make Mr Gloomy happier

01.04.11
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

City Spy: Survey spend that just doesn't click

30.03.11
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

My moment of madness by the tycoon who shot burglar alarm

29.03.11
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 ... more

Heron Tower from the ground up

09.03.11
The City's new £185 million Heron Tower is London's second tallest building - but it's at street level where it really succeeds... more

Great Portland Estates skyscraper still grounded

27.01.11
Developers are yet to fire the starting gun on a major City skyscraper despite "good progress" on the project... more

City Spy: Tony Pidgley homes in on City flats battle

05.08.10
Did Berkeley Homes boss Tony Pidgley buy Roman House in the City for £10 million because he could not resist a bargain?... more

‘Almost half’ flats at The Heron sold three years early

20.07.10
Nearly half the flats at the flagship Heron development in the City have now been sold — three years before building will be completed... more

City Spy: Parties shop for votes in Morrisons and Asda

15.04.10
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

City Spy: Top-shelf titles pay for West Ham

21.01.10
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

Old Nick's Almanack: City predictions for 2010

17.12.09
Predictions to bet on or just a bit of devilry? If the City is about to empty, why shouldn’t Stephen Green go to Canterbury?... more

Ronson’s on the look-out

26.08.09
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

Ronson creates a stir doing porridge

10.06.09
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 ... more

Never the English gent: a clear picture of Ronson

05.06.09
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

The vultures are hovering, so we must be at the bottom

03.04.09
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

Investors have to share blame for crisis, says veteran Ronson

31.03.09
City veteran Gerald Ronson said greedy investors must share the blame with bankers and regulators for the meltdown in financial markets... more

Property

08.10.08
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. ... more

Daisy Lowe is back with her ex...but it's not Mark Ronson

13.09.08
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

My London tower is the only one that'll be built

18.06.08
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

Mind the age gap: Model Daisy Lowe, 19, pictured for the first time with new man Mark Ronson, 32

09.05.08
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

Ronson in attack on tax 'threat' to the City

07.04.08
Property tycoon Gerald Ronson warns London's status as a global financial centre is under threat... more

Cameron ally's hedge fund closes after SEC complaint

26.03.08
Pentagon Capital Management becomes the latest to fall victim to the credit crunch... more

The property tycoons and Ken

25.03.08
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

Come on, Ken, tell us who your donors are

17.03.08
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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