Hints and tips:
...KPMG applies the policy to all of its partners....
...Yet at partner level, women make up under 30 per cent....
...“Don’t let the tax tail wag the dog,” advises Paul Comeau, senior partner at Hodgson Russ LLP, to clients contemplating such a move....
...“Putney would benefit massively from a high street that delivers some better retail,” says Nick Alderman, residential development partner at Knight Frank....
...Hamptons International, which focuses on southern England, has opened five branches in 2011, including an office in Mayfair, and plans to open three more next year....
...Darina Kerr, partner in the real estate team at law firm Dundas & Wilson, agrees. She says that while student property is seen as a safe bet by some investors, the sector is not without risk....
...According to Lynn Hilton, partner for residential lettings at Cluttons, as many as one in five tenants is now failing the credit referencing test. Four years ago, fewer than one in 20 was rejected....
...Ricky Paugh, a motivational speaker who runs ultra-marathons, and his partner Jemma Cowen, a property buying agent, decided to go down this route....
...“We’re back up to the volumes we were doing in 2007, which was really the best year for any agent ever,” said Tim Wright, a partner at Knight Frank’s Kensington office....
...“The margin between what vendors are asking for and what they are selling for has narrowed considerably,” said Tom Tangney, a partner at Knight Frank....
...Phil Tennant at Hamptons International, the estate agent, says the opportunity to acquire a bigger property more cheaply is the “number one reason to sell at the moment”....
...Price your property realistically Phil Tennant at Hamptons International says vendors who price their properties at realistic levels are finding buyers, while those who are still seeking high prices are...
...Mr Hingley is vice chairman of the boutique corporate finance house, Lexicon Partners, which was founded seven years ago by a group of DLJ alumni, including Cliff Hampton and Sir Laurie Magnus....
...Mulcahy may be taking it easier these days, but Hampton and Olver were kitted out with satellite phones. There was business to be done, even in the middle of the Atlantic....
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