Home buyers welcomed the stamp duty holiday extension in this week’s Budget – but over-stretched solicitors say many will still miss the new deadline and some are even turning clients away. Chancellor Rishi Sunak confirmed that the stamp duty holiday will continue to apply to the first £500,000 of a home’s purchase price until 30 … Read more
Things are looking up! Luxury $400K Chinese RV features an expanding second floor complete with ELEVATOR China-built Maxus Life Home V90 Villa Edition costs $413,000 The RV expands both upwards and outwards with slide-out walls and a powered pop-top extension that creates a sunroom on the second floor The 215 square feet of living space … Read more
Billionaire petrol station tycoons the Issa brothers and their private equity backers have today completed their £6.8billion acquisition of Asda, returning the supermarket giant to British ownership after more than 20 years. The EG Group, owned by Mohsin and Zuber Issa, previously reached an agreement to acquire the chain from Walmart. The deal, which is … Read more
Billionaire petrol station tycoons the Issa brothers and their private equity backers have today completed their £6.8billion acquisition of Asda, returning the supermarket giant to British ownership after more than 20 years. The EG Group, owned by Mohsin and Zuber Issa, previously reached an agreement to acquire the chain from Walmart. The deal, which is … Read more
‘The Wrexham Supporters Trust Board is pleased to announce the completion of the sale of Wrexham AFC to RR McReynolds LLC. ‘We would like to thank all our members for their participation in the voting process and patience regarding the deal. Also, to our advisors on the deal, namely BDO, Kevin Jacquiss, Mackenzie Jones, Rob … Read more
‘The Wrexham Supporters Trust Board is pleased to announce the completion of the sale of Wrexham AFC to RR McReynolds LLC. ‘We would like to thank all our members for their participation in the voting process and patience regarding the deal. Also, to our advisors on the deal, namely BDO, Kevin Jacquiss, Mackenzie Jones, Rob … Read more
Mark Wright and Michelle Keegan have won another planning battle to build their dream family home, following opposition from local councils. The couple had already been granted permission to demolish a £1.3 million farmhouse and construct a five-bedroom house in Ongar, Essex, complete with bar, gym and outdoor swimming pool. Last month, they submitted a … Read more
The average property is taking nearly a month longer to sell once under offer, due to a conveyancing bottleneck that has developed since the property market shutdown in March and April. The multi-agent property seller Movewise looked at properties that had exchanged over the past 30 days, and found that the buyers’ offer had been … Read more
‘A complete lack of Covid-19 measures’ at an airport on the paradise archipelago of Zanzibar has left a hygiene audit team shocked. Respected UK-based air transport rating agency Skytrax said that Abeid Amani Karume International Airport was ‘failing on Covid-19 safety protocols’ after it assessed measures and standards at the airport earlier this month. It … Read more
Two Danish architects have completed a two-month stay in their own collapsible shelter in a remote part of Greenland to stimulate harsh conditions on the Moon. Sebastian Aristotelis and Karl-Johan Sørensen, who are part of a design firm called SAGA Space Architects, camped out in the ‘Lunark’ shelter amid -28°F (-16°C) conditions on the island’s north without … Read more