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The board of BAA was meeting last night, as hostile bidder Ferrovial, the Spanish construction, infrastructure and services group, sought to increase the pressure on the UK airports group to…

The mini house-price boom of recent months may be coming to an end, economists have said, after the growth in mortgage approvals unexpectedly fell.

Singapore yesterday selected Las Vegas Sands, the US gaming group to operate what is being called the world’s most expensive casino.

The cost of rented accommodation rose at its fastest pace for five years over the three months to the end of April, figures from RICS show.

Marylebone Warwick Balfour is in exclusive talks to buy Glasgow landmark hotel, One Devonshire Gardens, for around £9m, according to The Times.

Millennium & Copthorne Hotels will put four Singaporean hotels worth £286.6m into a real estate investment trust and float the property vehicle on the Singapore Stock Exchange.

Shanghai Greenland Group, one of Shanghai’s biggest property developers, is planning to float a property trust in Hong Kong, the second such issue from the Chinese mainland.

Ex Minvera boss Sir David Garrard has been told by Labour party chiefs that he can still go to the House of Lords despite his peerage nomination being blocked.

Young’s, the brewery group, which this week told workers it was moving out of London, has been accused of running a “shambolic” auction of its historic premises.

Britain’s main airport operator BAA is to press for changes in the way it is regulated at its London terminals and is willing to negotiate over its ownership of seven…