Do TV and Film Investments Make Money?

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Trends in television The introduction of video-on-demand (VOD) services including Amazon and Netflix has revolutionised the way we watch TV. They are each gaining millions of new subscribers each year and produce ever more of their own award-winning…

The Week Brexit Got Real for Investors in Property Funds

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When reality dawned, the reaction was swift. For one corner of the U.K. investment industry, it’s not clear where it will stop. Funds investing in commercial property, among the most popular last year, had started to show vulnerability in…

Brexit aftershocks hit UK’s property sector

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LONDON — The aftershocks of Britain’s decision to leave the EU have hit the property sector over the past week, with a foreign bank freezing loans for buyers and some investors pulling out of commercial deals. Some foreigners, however,…

Property Market On The Ropes Following Brexit Vote

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London had already been eclipsed, but following the vote to leave the EU, the rest of the country could be about to see house price falls Annual house price growth will rapidly slow down towards the low single digits across the UK's major…

Property-Sector Profit Warning Highlights ‘Brexit’ Risk for U.K.

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Series of trading suspensions highlight concern over sector. Shares in U.K. real-estate firms—from office landlords to property brokers and home builders—were hammered Monday after Britons last week voted to leave the European Union, a…

London is more attractive than ever to overseas property investors as pound drops after Leave vote

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Sadiq Khan will have a tough job slowing foreign investment in London's most expensive areas as investors can now get up to 20 per cent off thanks to the dip in the value of the pound... London Mayor Sadiq Khan this week criticised his…

Property supply plummets in half of UK towns in May

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Overall property supply increased by 5% in May but there was a stark divide across the UK as supply fall in half of towns and cities. Online estate agent HouseSimple.com tracked the number of new properties marketed over the month, in more…

UK Landlords Concerned By Changing Property Tax System

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A majority of UK landlords surveyed by lender Amicus Property Finance have expressed their concerns over recent reforms to the property tax system, with changes to capital gains tax and mortgage interest reliefs causing the greatest concern. John…

The Brexit effect on UK property will be more devastating than anyone has predicted

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Britain leaving the European Union would not only kill property prices but drag the UK banking sector down with it, say analysts at research house Bernstein. While Chancellor George Osborne already warned in May that a Brexit would make house…

UK house prices inch up 0.6% in May

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Halifax says increase adds £1,200 to the value of a typical home, with the average house price now at £213,472 House prices inched up 0.6% in May, largely cancelling out a fall the previous month and adding £1,200 to the value of a typical…

Halifax sees UK property market cooling

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Although price growth continued to increase at a "brisk" annual rate of 9.2 per cent in May – taking the average value of a home to £213,472 – the quarterly rate eased slightly on the April figure, according to the Halifax. On Monday,…