Investigations

Explore and help us investigate the Bristol properties owned offshore

From major hotels and office blocks, to flats and single car parking spaces, hundreds of properties in Bristol are owned through companies based overseas. Most of these companies are based in tax havens, marked by secrecy and opportunities for dodging taxes or hiding the origins of their money.

Hundreds of Bristol properties snapped up by offshore firms

Council properties flogged to secretive offshore companies

Bristol and Beyond

Opinion: Fitting that Bristol strikes at developers in week of Paradise Papers

Investigative journalist and member of the Tax Justice Network George Turner gives his take.

City

Chinese state is behind a zero affordable housing development in Bristol

City

The bankers & offshore companies behind Easton housing development

Panama Papers: Bristol City F.C, Rugby Club and Flyers

Bristol City F.C, Rugby Club and Flyers are owned by billionaire Stephen Lansdown through a web of offshore companies, the Cable can reveal.   Billionaire...

NHS in Bristol propose controversial rule change for contracts

Clinical Commissioning Group claims just a “minor change” despite protests

The council’s heavies are coming round…

Bailiff use is rising in Bristol, but why?

Tax havens and secretive offshore companies: making Bristol unaffordable

Companies registered in tax havens are gobbling residential and commercial property in our city

The offshore companies buying Bristol – courtesy of our council

Bristol City Council have made an estimated £126m from leasing properties to secretive offshore registered companies based in the Isle of Man, Jersey, the British Virgin Islands and Guernsey.