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...The beneficial owner is listed as a Cypriot trust, Proteas Trustee Services Ltd....
...He would split the UK property landlord’s assets in two, fold its office portfolio into Workspace, the property trust he manages, and sell off its warehouses. But his idea has been thrown off-course....
...Property tycoon Jamie Ritblat is battling the UK’s tax authority over tens of millions of pounds that HM Revenue & Customs claims is owed by him and his real estate investment firm, Delancey....
...They will be adhered to and protected by schemes such as trusts....
...Records filed under the new transparency law identify the owner of Wilbur Real Estate 5 as Lansac Limited, whose sole shareholder is a Cypriot trust service provider called Page Trustees....
...Despite recent increases, funds for prisons remain 8 per cent lower in real terms than in 2010-11, according to the Prison Reform Trust....
...The energy division also encompasses HomeServices of America, a real estate brokerage enmeshed in its own litigation....
...Max Nimmo, a real estate analyst at stockbroker Numis, pointed out the particular problems for “open-ended” property funds, which allow daily dealing when the underlying asset is inherently illiquid....
...For instance, that George Michael’s private company, now owned by his estate, goes by the comical name of Nobby’s Hobbies Holdings Ltd....
...In 1760 George III surrendered hereditary revenues from the Crown Estate in return for a fixed annual payment....
...The MSCI US real estate investment trust index has fallen 8.5 per cent since the start of the month, despite domestic property companies’ reliance for funding on the very regional banks at the centre of...
...Reporting by Peter Foster, Anna Gross, Jane Croft, Sarah Neville, Chris Cook and George Parker...
...The UK is much greedier than most, with some estates offering the chance to shoot hundreds of birds in one day....
...Investors are keeping a close eye on property funds such as private equity firm Blackstone’s Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust....
...When you die, pensions are normally excluded from your taxable estate, with zero inheritance tax....
...By an extraordinary coincidence, around 1800 Kedleston was taken as the model for the Calcutta residence of the senior British official in India: so when George Nathaniel Curzon arrived as viceroy in 1899...
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...By the time she married her fourth and final husband, George Talbot, 6th Earl of Shrewsbury, in 1567, her property portfolio included the Chatsworth estate, which she had acquired with her second husband...
...HMRC claims that income and employment-related taxes are owed on £141mn of profit from Delancey’s flagship DV4 fund that was paid from a trust to 24 employees, including Ritblat....
...The house was owned via a Guernsey trust set up by the Royal Bank of Canada’s Channel Islands trust arm, Quendon said in court filings. RBC and Linklaters declined to comment....
...“What the funds do with people they know and trust is give you the list of all their assets and see if you want them,” he said....
...MREITs are like traditional real estate investment trusts, but they buy individual mortgages and MBS instead of property....
...George Gatch, the chief executive of JPMorgan Asset Management has warned that commercial real estate is the next sector under threat from rising borrowing costs after bank failures and last year’s pension...
...The FT’s George Parker was there....
...Tottenham is held by Bahamas-based ENIC, a company majority-owned by a family trust that the club says counts “certain members” of Lewis’s family as “potential beneficiaries”....
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