Jonathan Prynn is the Evening Standard’s award winning Associate Editor, Business, covering a huge range of news stories from property, retail and the economy, to restaurants and travel. He has previously worked at The Times and the Sunday Telegraph and has lived in London since the late Eighties with spells in Islington, Wandsworth, Holland Park and Hammersmith....
Jonathan Prynn is the Evening Standard’s award winning Associate Editor, Business, covering a huge range of news stories from property, retail and the economy, to restaurants and travel. He has previously worked at The Times and the Sunday Telegraph and has lived in London since the late Eighties with spells in Islington, Wandsworth, Holland Park and Hammersmith.
The Halifax research showed some of the biggest price falls were in London and the South East
City Comment: At a time when business leadership is in the news for the wrong reasons, it’s worth reflecting that we’re still blessed with some world class bosses
City comment: The sharp decline in residential building is a relief to homeowners… but a big problem for those trying to get on the property ladder
Average rate on two-year fix rose from 5.72 per cent to 5.75 per cent on Tuesday
The surge in mortgage rates has come after inflation proved more ‘sticky’ than expected
City Comment: London’s hegemony is still unchallenged — for now
City comment: progress on gender diversity appears to be glacially slow
Buyers ‘spooked’ by threat of yet more interest rate rise pain on mortgages
Interest rate hikes will mean homeowners face bigger bills as cheap fixed deals expire
Calls continue for the ‘tourist tax’ to be dropped even as ‘tourism in the West End is showing clear signs of recovery’
City comment: London will be a major contributor to the levelling-up the Government is so keen to achieve
IMF warns that interest rates will rise further but forecast that the UK would avoid a recession
Council leader calls on Oxford Street property owners to ’rid the area of rip-off retailers once and for all’ in letter seen by the Standard
City comment: Markets are losing faith in the Bank of England’s strategy
Core inflation rose to its highest level in 30 years
The Consumer Price Index (CPI) - the headline measure of inflation - dropped to 8.7 per cent in April from 10.1 per cent in March
Horatio’s Garden was named Best in Show by judges from the Royal Horticultural Society
Manoj Malde’s ceremony was held in the garden he created for the RHS
New research calls into question the Government’s argument that scrapping the ’tourist tax’ would cost billions
