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HSBC aiming to pull in £2.7bn from selling HQs

05.10.09
Europe’s largest bank HSBC today agreed the sale and leaseback of its New York headquarters for $330 million, the first of three such planned transactions ... more

Koreans following Asian investors into London

04.09.09
The world’s fifth biggest pension fund today moved to snap up hundreds of millions of pounds worth of trophy assets in London ... more

Baroness Scotland changes her tune...

05.08.09
Raised eyebrows in the Treasury at the interview with Baroness Scotland, the attorney-general, in the Financial Times. She is keen to get across just how determined she is to crack down on financial crime ... ... more

Force no longer with Foster's 'Darth Vader' skyscraper

04.08.09
One of Lord Foster's most daring designs to date - an office block resembling Darth Vader's helmet - is unlikely to be built after its developers fell victim to the credit crunch... more

Setback for Norman Foster-designed development

03.08.09
The long-awaited redevelopment of Bucklersbury House and Temple Court in the City was kicked further into the long grass today as the developer pulled out of the project ... more

How the recession is poisoning the Wharf

02.06.09
Canary Wharf was in the midst of the banking boom that turned London into the most powerful financial centre in the world - but it could now become one of the most high-profile victims of the bust ... more

Gods are failing to smile on the works of minerva

06.03.09
Whatever happens to Minerva, the property company named after the Roman "goddess of 1000 works" will leave at least two monuments to its labours in the City... more

Diligent heroes who smelt a rat at Lipstick

17.12.08
Hats off to the unsung heroes of the Madoff affair: those firms who told clients to steer well clear... more

HSBC 'faces fundraiser' after Madoff scam losses'

16.12.08
Fraud: HSBC's massive exposure to the alleged Ponzi scheme run by Bernard Madoff will add to the pressure on the bank to seek a major fundraising, analysts said... more

HSBC buys back HQ at a £250m discount

05.12.08
The economic downturn has enabled HSBC to buy back its headquarters building in Canary Wharf at a discount of £250 million to the price it sold the building for last year... more

HSBC may buy back Wharf HQ

17.10.08
Property: HSBC is in talks to buy back its Canary Wharf headquarters for as much as £300 million less than it paid for it just over a year ago... more

HSBC tower sale still up in air

25.09.08
Spanish property firm Metrovacesa has yet to find a buyer for the HSBC tower at Canary Wharf... more

And this year’s winners are ... the liquidators

17.09.08
WITH administrators and liquidators picking over corporate carcasses around the country and consigning thousands to the dole queue, step forward the annual Insolvency and Rescue Awards... more

It's all coming up roses in the Cadogan garden

23.05.08
Charles Gerald John Cadogan and his family took a £30 million dividend from the Cadogan Estate in January... more

London's 'third city' at a planning crossroads

16.05.08
Examination of plans for the redevelopment of Croydon reveal both naïve optimism and a refusal to face uncomfortable truths... more

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