{"id":1267,"date":"2016-09-30T12:54:26","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T11:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.buyassociation.co.uk\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2016-09-30T12:54:26","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T11:54:26","slug":"london-mayor-launch-inquiry-foreign-property-investment-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/2016\/09\/30\/london-mayor-launch-inquiry-foreign-property-investment-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"London mayor to launch inquiry into foreign property investment in capital"},"content":{"rendered":"

London\u2019s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has announced that he will be taking a closer look at the impact of foreign investment on the capital\u2019s property market.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In an interview with the Guardian<\/a>, Khan explained that foreign investors are causing real concern for the city\u2019s property market, leading him to the decision to look into the issue for the first time ever.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s clear we need to better understand the different roles that overseas money plays in London\u2019s housing market, the scale of what\u2019s going on, and what action we can take to support development and help Londoners find a home,\u201d Khan said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why we are commissioning the most thorough research on this matter ever undertaken in Britain \u2013 the biggest look of its kind at this issue \u2013 so we can figure out exactly what can be done.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Although it might take some time for the results to be revealed, an interesting question for many developers to ask themselves is whether to shift their focus away from the capital. Especially considering the increase in London\u2019s house prices whilst yields are dropping, some savvy investors might have already started sussing out Britain\u2019s other cities.<\/p>\n

Khan\u2019s decision to investigate foreign investment might\u2019ve just been another push for investors to find new UK investment hotspots<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

London\u2019s mayor, Sadiq Khan, has announced that he will be taking a closer look at the impact of foreign investment on the capital\u2019s property market. In an interview with the Guardian, Khan explained that foreign investors are causing real concern for the city\u2019s property market, leading him to the decision to look into the issue… Read more »<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":4687,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[157,13,158,159],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buyassociationgroup.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}