Good morning. In The Times today, overseas buyers in some of London’s most expensive postcodes, including Belgravia, Mayfair and Knightsbridge fell from 58% in the second half of last year, to 44% in the first half of this year.
Also in The Times, J Sainsbury has played down talk that it has launched a formal hunt for a new chief executive to replace Mike Coupe as three insiders jumped to the top of the list of possible candidates.
Buyers return to housing market after prices slide
Survival bunkers are hot property in stressful world
Boohoo: the retailer defying the gloom
Sports Direct’s largest minority shareholder shows faith in Ashley
Labour plans to allow councils to seize empty shops
UK restaurant diners snub pasta for hummus and jerk chicken
Whittard of Chelsea boss Mark Dunhill quits after five years
