https://www.bloomberg.com/authors/ABkki05a3Qc/stuart-trow RSS for Node Thu, 07 May 2026 02:43:41 GMT https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-13/london-apartments-are-cheap-for-a-reason https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-13/london-apartments-are-cheap-for-a-reason Tue, 13 Jan 2026 05:00:31 GMT Estate agents "For Sale", "To Let" and "Let By" sign boards outside a block of flats in the Putney district of London, UK, on Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. Homebuyers are getting the edge in the UK property market as sellers cut their asking prices to get deals done. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-05/the-uk-housing-crisis-is-hitting-new-depths https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2026-01-05/the-uk-housing-crisis-is-hitting-new-depths Mon, 05 Jan 2026 05:00:09 GMT Mattresses for homeless people outside a Wilko Ltd. store store displaying posters for a a closing down sale, in London, UK, on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2023. UK inflation data due out Wednesday will likely show that price gains notched higher to 7% last month from 6.8% in July, according to the median of more than 30 estimates in a Bloomberg survey. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-24/rachel-reeves-budget-british-taxes-are-about-to-get-very-complicated https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-11-24/rachel-reeves-budget-british-taxes-are-about-to-get-very-complicated Mon, 24 Nov 2025 05:00:35 GMT Keir Starmer, UK prime minister, left, and Rachel Reeves, UK chancellor of the exchequer, after her keynote speech at the UK Labour Party annual conference in Liverpool, UK, on Monday, Sept. 29, 2025. The conference runs until Wednesday, Oct. 1. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-29/uk-housing-britain-forgot-subsidized-flats-need-a-subsidy https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-29/uk-housing-britain-forgot-subsidized-flats-need-a-subsidy Wed, 29 Oct 2025 05:00:05 GMT Homes for people not profit, Council housing and rent controls placards as thousands of people gathered for the People's Assembly National Demonstration - No More Austerity 2.0 to protest in a march through the capital against Labour Party cuts on 7th June 2025 in London, United Kingdom. The demonstration has three core messages brought together by trade unions, as well as health, disability and welfare campaigners and community organisations: No to austerity 2.0 - fund public services, Tax the Rich Empower workers, not big business and Welfare, not Warfare Stop attacks on disabled people. (photo by Mike Kemp/In Pictures via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-13/london-s-housing-policy-pragmatism-is-too-little-too-late https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-10-13/london-s-housing-policy-pragmatism-is-too-little-too-late Mon, 13 Oct 2025 04:00:07 GMT Police man a security cordon as a huge fire engulfs the Grenfell Tower early June 14, 2017 in west London. The massive fire ripped through the 27-storey apartment block in west London in the early hours of Wednesday, trapping residents inside as 200 firefighters battled the blaze. Police and fire services attempted to evacuate the concrete block and said "a number of people are being treated for a range of injuries", including at least two for smoke inhalation. (Photo by Daniel LEAL / AFP) (Photo by DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-26/britain-s-tale-of-two-rental-housing-markets https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-08-26/britain-s-tale-of-two-rental-housing-markets Tue, 26 Aug 2025 03:30:19 GMT Protesters' placards are pictured in the window of a Foxtons estate agents' demonstrate outside in central London on December 14, 2024, demanding urgent action on the city's rising rents. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS / AFP) (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-10/uk-property-market-all-the-wrong-moves-for-homeowners https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-06-10/uk-property-market-all-the-wrong-moves-for-homeowners Tue, 10 Jun 2025 04:00:12 GMT LONDON, ENGLAND - AUGUST 29: A general view of the uncompleted "Patchwork" housing project in the Walthamstow area, on August 29, 2024 in London, England. The New Homes Accelerator Programme will identify large sites where development has stalled. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-23/london-rents-surge-why-are-landlords-miserable https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-23/london-rents-surge-why-are-landlords-miserable Wed, 23 Apr 2025 04:00:34 GMT LONDON, ENGLAND - FEBRUARY 04: 'For Sale' and 'To Let' signs stand outside a housing estate on February 04, 2025 in South London, England. Financial analysts are predicting that interest rates will be cut when the Bank of England delivers its next interest rate decision on February 6, making borrowing cheaper for British households. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-01/uk-boomers-need-tax-breaks-to-downsize-their-houses https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-04-01/uk-boomers-need-tax-breaks-to-downsize-their-houses Tue, 01 Apr 2025 04:00:12 GMT Estate agents "For Sale", "Sold" and "To Let" signs outside residential properties in London, UK, on Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. UK estate agents turned pessimistic about the housing market, anticipating prices will decline over the next year for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-20/uk-pensions-use-it-or-lose-it-when-it-comes-to-retirement-savings https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2025-02-20/uk-pensions-use-it-or-lose-it-when-it-comes-to-retirement-savings Thu, 20 Feb 2025 05:00:15 GMT The headquarters of HM Revenue and Customs in the Westminster district of London, UK, on Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2023. The UK tax system allows people to use their pension pots to avoid inheritance tax and should be changed to allow the government to collect more tax, a think tank has said. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-12-09/uk-economy-labour-errs-badly-by-discouraging-pension-savings https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-12-09/uk-economy-labour-errs-badly-by-discouraging-pension-savings Mon, 09 Dec 2024 05:00:07 GMT KINGSTON UPON HULL, ENGLAND - DECEMBER 3: UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves speaks during The Great Northern Conference on December 3, 2024 in Kingston upon Hull, England. The conference is presented as the voice for the north in the levelling up agenda. It is attended by politicians, business leaders, academics and media to debate and collaborate on how best to grow the economy and build a greener, fairer, equal future for the North. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-04/uk-budget-savers-landlords-are-only-starting-to-feel-labour-s-heat https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-11-04/uk-budget-savers-landlords-are-only-starting-to-feel-labour-s-heat Mon, 04 Nov 2024 05:00:27 GMT A shopkeeper (L) passes a customer their change in GBP pound sterling ten and twenty pound notes, at a shop in east London on March 31, 2023. (Photo by Susannah Ireland / AFP) / TO GO WITH AFP STORY BY Akshata KAPOOR (Photo by SUSANNAH IRELAND/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-12/wealth-taxes-are-the-obvious-revenue-target-for-reeves https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-08-12/wealth-taxes-are-the-obvious-revenue-target-for-reeves Mon, 12 Aug 2024 04:00:14 GMT Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves speaks during a press conference at the Treasury in central London on July 29, 2024, after her ministerial statement to MPs on government finances. Reeves declared that the public finances face an extra £22-billion hole inherited from the previous Conservative administration and warned of "difficult decisions" ahead to cut spending or hike taxes. (Photo by Lucy North / POOL / AFP) (Photo by LUCY NORTH/POOL/AFP via Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-02/uk-election-can-a-labour-party-wealth-tax-fill-britain-s-fiscal-hole https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-07-02/uk-election-can-a-labour-party-wealth-tax-fill-britain-s-fiscal-hole Tue, 02 Jul 2024 04:00:29 GMT Rachel Reeves, UK shadow chancellor of the exchequer, departs from a meeting to finalise the Labour Party manifesto in London, UK, on Friday, June 7, 2024. Labour is holding a crunch meeting at a secret location on Friday to hammer out the final details of its election manifesto, with a potential row brewing with unions over its promises on worker’s rights. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-10/uk-election-why-labour-doesn-t-have-to-run-scared-on-taxes https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-06-10/uk-election-why-labour-doesn-t-have-to-run-scared-on-taxes Mon, 10 Jun 2024 04:00:23 GMT LONDON, ENGLAND - JUNE 1: Britain's Labour Party's election campaign "Battle Bus", with party Leader Keir Starmer, Deputy Leader Angela Rayner and Rachel Reeves, Shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer on board heads off on it's first journey on June 1, 2024 in Uxbridge, England. The Labour Party is campaigning on their plan to 'power up' Britain. They say they will deliver growth in every corner of the country, put more money in people's pockets and give people control over what matters to them. (Photo by Peter Nicholls/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-21/keir-starmer-s-6-big-labour-pledges-favor-populism-over-real-reform https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-05-21/keir-starmer-s-6-big-labour-pledges-favor-populism-over-real-reform Tue, 21 May 2024 04:00:26 GMT PURFLEET, ENGLAND - MAY 16: Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves (L), Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer (C) and Deputy Leader Angela Rayner (R) watch a recorded message during a launch event for their six election pledges on May 16, 2024 in Purfleet, England. Labour Leader Keir Starmer pledges to deliver economic stability, cut NHS waiting times, launch a new Border Security Command, set up Great British Energy and recruit 6,500 new teachers if Labour win the next General Election. (Photo by Leon Neal/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-30/uk-real-estate-we-need-to-talk-about-capital-gains-taxes https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-04-30/uk-real-estate-we-need-to-talk-about-capital-gains-taxes Tue, 30 Apr 2024 04:00:33 GMT BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - NOVEMBER 23: An array of To Let signs adorn properties to rent in the Selly Oak area of Birmingham on November 23, 2016 in Birmingham, England. Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond is due to deliver his autumn statement to MPs later today. It is expected that he will ban lettings agents in England from charging fees to tenants. Philip Hammond will say that shifting the cost to landlords will save 4.3 million households hundreds of pounds. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-20/bond-funds-are-not-as-safe-as-you-thought https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-02-20/bond-funds-are-not-as-safe-as-you-thought Tue, 20 Feb 2024 05:00:16 GMT FILE: Discounted piggy banks painted with the Union Jack flag sit on sale at a store on Oxford Street, in London, U.K., on Monday, Nov. 15, 2010. European Union and Jack flags as Brexit trade talks that were on the verge of a breakthrough descended into a fight between the U.K. and France on Thursday as the British government said prospects of an imminent deal had receded. https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-31/government-coffers-stealth-taxes-are-annoying-and-ineffective https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-31/government-coffers-stealth-taxes-are-annoying-and-ineffective Wed, 31 Jan 2024 05:00:15 GMT LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - APRIL 01: Photograph shows a front door letter box with HMRC envelope, Her Majestys Revenue and Customs (HMRC) reminding of the date that self-assessment tax returns need to be completed by self-employed companies and individuals on April 01, 2022 in London, England.(Photo by Peter Dazeley/Getty Images) https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-18/uk-politics-weaponizing-inheritance-tax-is-bad-economics https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2024-01-18/uk-politics-weaponizing-inheritance-tax-is-bad-economics Thu, 18 Jan 2024 05:00:20 GMT LONDON, ENGLAND - MARCH 02: The shadow of a cemetery worker is cast on reclaimed gravestones in London City Cemetery on March 2, 2009 in London, England. The cemetery is piloting a scheme whereby graves over 75 years old become eligible for reclamation. New interments will be placed into the existing graves, the headstones will be turned around and re-used, carving the names of the newly deceased. Once a grave has been earmarked by English heritage the cemetery must wait one year to see if family members claim the existing grave. By conserving as many memorials as possible the City of London hopes to maintain the historic cemetery landscape and sustain buriel provisions for the future. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)