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As rents soar, Londoners turn to vacant pubs, offices and police stations

Property guardianship, in which residents live in otherwise vacant buildings, used to be considered edgy. But more people are embracing the arrangement

Visitors in New Delhi. India has lately picked up the pace of liberalising trade, striking deals with the UK and New Zealand.
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Commonwealth’s economic momentum grows

The 56-member group can advance trade liberalisation by building on existing Asia-Pacific and African agreements

Along with AI companies, legal firms are the latest to splash out in London, with US law consultants increasing the space they lease by 75 per cent in the final quarter of 2025

Anthropic, OpenAI splurge on London office space in leasing wave

AI-enabled firms are looking for roughly 630,000 square feet of space across the UK’s capital

The property plan of the parish of St Ann Blackfriars in London discovered by Lucy Munro, professor of Shakespeare and early modern literature at King's College London.

Shakespeare bought one property in London. Now we know exactly where

In confirming the precise location of the Bard’s Blackfriars house, a British scholar raises fresh questions about what he intended to do with it

Short-term demand from families relocating from the Middle East added to the impact of impending regulations weighing on supply.

London luxury rents rise as Gulf demand adds to supply crunch

Rents in the city’s prime central area are up 1.2% in the year until March

The BOE has been criticised for underestimating the inflation surge after Russia's invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Bank of England sheds senior staff as 75 get top £150,000 payout

As part of cost-cutting efforts, 8% will depart in the coming months

Some 71.5 billion euros of European commercial real estate transactions were completed in the final quarter of 2025, down 9 per cent from the same period a year earlier.

Iran shock upends real estate’s long-anticipated recovery

Institutional investors have reduced their target allocations to the sector for the first time since 2012

Lim Chung Chun, chairman and CEO of iFast, says the rebranding of FSMOne is to signal its intent to focus more on global customers.

iFast unveils ‘Truly Global Business Model’, rebrands FSMOne to FSM Global

The group is repositioning itself to view its customers as international – not just from the markets in which it operates

Across the UK as a whole, RICS said new buyer enquiries improved in January, alongside agreed sales.

London’s house price slump to bottom out, RICS survey says

The monthly study is closely watched for indications of where the UK property market might be heading

Sales in overseas markets have been surging, becoming Pop Mart’s key growth driver.

Labubu maker Pop Mart sets up London hub for European push

The company will open 27 new stores in Europe in the coming year