{"id":17066,"date":"2016-06-20T06:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-19T23:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gulf-investors-plan-to-buy-to-leave-london-property-survey-shows\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T06:08:53","modified_gmt":"2016-06-19T23:08:53","slug":"gulf-investors-plan-to-buy-to-leave-london-property-survey-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gulf-investors-plan-to-buy-to-leave-london-property-survey-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf investors plan to &#039;buy to leave&#039; London property, survey shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nOne-in-four investors from Gulf states who intend to buy property in London do not mean to live in it, according to researchOne-in-four investors from Gulf states intending to buy property in London plan purely to gain from rising prices without living there, according to research among wealthy people seen by the Guardian. Concerns have been raised over \u201cbuy to leave\u201d properties, which are often owned by overseas buyers who do not use them for much of the year. In May, the Guardian revealed that 184 of the 214 apartments in the luxury central London development the Tower did not have anyone registered to vote and that almost two-thirds of the properties were owned by overseas buyers. The new mayor of London, Sadiq Khan, has spoken out about buyers who use homes in the capital as \u201cgold bricks for investment\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2016\/jun\/20\/gulf-investors-buy-to-leave-london-property-survey\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf investors plan to &#8216;buy to leave&#8217; London property, survey shows<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; One-in-four investors from Gulf states who intend to buy property in London do not mean&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-4rg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21975,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/weak-pound-creates-bargain-london-property-deals-for-gulf-buyers\/","url_meta":{"origin":17066,"position":0},"title":"Weak pound creates bargain London property deals for Gulf buyers","date":"August 4, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Arabian Gulf property investors have begun bargain hunting among London's most exclusive addresses as prices tumble.House prices in some of the parts of London most popular with GCC investors have suffered their biggest annual falls in nearly seven years.Average prices in the London district of Knightsbridge fell 7.3 per\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":31330,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/gulf-investors-know-london-is-fashionable-in-every-season\/","url_meta":{"origin":17066,"position":1},"title":"Gulf investors know London is fashionable in every season","date":"October 23, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r LONDON \/\/ It is fitting that the Dubai developer Damac Properties chose Knightsbridge in which to build its London show apartment. 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