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The best Olympic guide we have seen – East London Unlocked

The good people at Tropolis have put together an excellent guide to east London during the Olympics. Written by someone in the know and well worth a browse, click the image below to go directly to their site…

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Join most of London’s population, now living east of Blackfriars Bridge

The Evening Standard reports that the majority of the capital’s population now lives east of Blackfriars Bridge. This remarkable demographic shift to just beyond the Square Mile’s ancient walls is largely due to new transport links — the Jubilee line and the East London line extensions among them — that have combined with riverbank regeneration to revitalise City fringe districts, now bursting with dot.commerce businesses and new cultural and leisure attractions.

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London: The world’s most international city

The Econmist this week has a special report on London. This is London’s year. London has resisted Britain’s relative decline. Globalisation is distilled and concentrated in London, making it the world’s most international city. New York has as many foreign-born people as London—a bit more than a third—but its businesses look to America, whereas London’s look out to the world. Read more here or watch the video.

Fascinating stuff.

Majority of London’s renters say they’ll never own their own home

A majority of Londoners who rent their home say they have been priced out of property ownership forever.

London Councils, which represents all local authorities in London, commissioned Ipsos MORI to survey Londoners on the capital’s housing stock and market.

The poll found that six in ten renters and half of all private sector renters do not expect to ever be able to buy their own home.

London becomes a city of renters – Evening Standard

The London Evening Standard reports that thousands of new homes for rent are being built in London aimed at young people who have made a lifestyle choice to be tenants, says David Spittles

London’s resurgent rentals sector is leading a nationwide boom in private lettings that will change the face of the property market over the next decade.

Private renting now accounts for 27 per cent of all homes in the capital and has overtaken social renting, which accounts for 24 per cent.

London Fields forever: street style from the hipster park

The London Evening Standard reports from the fringes of the park-cum-outdoor catwalk that is London Fields. Unfortunately nobody from Team Findlay caught the photographers eye.

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IMF calls on Bank of England to cut rates – FT

From the FT: The International Monetary Fund has called on the Bank of England to cut interest rates and resume printing money to boost demand in the economy. It has also asked the UK government to prepare a Plan B for deficit reduction if these measures do not work.

In a tough assessment of the UK’s economic prospects, the fund said the economy had not responded as it had hoped and risks of continued stagnation were high.

It said “further monetary easing is required” and should happen with more quantitative easing and a cut in the 0.5 per cent interest rate.

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NYT: Olympic Park Legacy

The New York Times reports today on the effect the Olympic Park will have on London:

The London Games, although lacking in geopolitical oomph, do have a big-ticket project: The Olympic Park in Stratford, a massive, multibillion exercise in urban renewal that will, at least for 17 days in July and August, shift London’s traditionally west-leaning axis to the east as tourists and Londoners alike disembark from tube and train among other transport options…

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FindaProperty: cost of renting apartments at historic high

The cost of renting for flats has reached an all-time high, according to an index by Findaproperty.com. The property listings website said letting costs had risen overall in the first quarter of 2012 – the first rise since last summer. More here