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Guy Hands

December 2024

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    Billionaire Guy Hands’ property firm sells military homes to MoD for £6bn

    Terra Firma’s sale of 36,000 properties ends legal fight with government over recent housing reforms

September 2024

  • Guy Hands pictured in front of blooms of flowers

    Billionaire Guy Hands’ property firm takes housing reforms to European court

    Annington Property fears recent legislation could potentially affect
    the value of some of the 38,000 UK military homes it holds

July 2023

  • Guy Hands pictured at the 2023 Chelsea Flower Show.

    Private equity pioneer Guy Hands to leave Terra Firma ‘when I’m 64’

    Dealmaker and ardent Brexit critic to leave senior posts at firm he founded more than 20 years ago

May 2023

  • Properties for sale on former RAF base Coltishall, Norfolk

    UK government wins right to take back control of military homes worth £8bn

    High court deals blow to Guy Hands’s Annington Property with ruling that privatisation was ‘bad deal’

March 2023

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    The Audio Long Read
    From the archive: How the MoD’s plan to privatise military housing ended in disaster – podcast

    From 2017: Two decades ago, the Ministry of Defence decided to sell off its housing stock. The financier Guy Hands bought it up in a deal that would make his investors billions – and have catastrophic consequences for the military and the taxpayer. By Holly Watt

February 2023

  • Campers at RAF Coltishall

    Guy Hands firm challenges MoD over controversial £8bn property estate

    Annington Property launches judicial review arguing ministry does not have right to take back houses after ‘disastrous’ sell-off

January 2023

  • An EU flag and a union flag held by a demonstrator at the Houses of Parliament

    Brexit is a ‘complete disaster’ and ‘total lies’, says former Tory donor

  • 'Complete disaster' and 'total lies': Tory billionaire lambasts effects of Brexit – audio

November 2022

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    Firm backed by billionaire withdraws £105m offer to repair military homes it owns

    Proposal by company owned by Guy Hands’ Terra Firma had been contingent on MoD dropping plan to wrest back ownership

October 2022

  • A sign painted on the side of a house directs people to a local food bank in Leeds, England.

    Tory backer says UK economy is ‘frankly doomed’ without Brexit renegotiation

    Guy Hands says Conservatives are putting country ‘on a path to be sick man of Europe’

February 2022

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    MoD given ultimatum to drop legal action against firm run by billionaire

    Ministers have two weeks to accept one-off payment instead of taking over 38,000 military homes from Guy Hands’ Annington

January 2022

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    Taxpayers lost billions on MoD housing – so I can’t feel sorry for Terra Firma

    Nils Pratley
  • Guy Hands, the founder of Terra Firma

    MoD seeks to buy back 38,000 homes leased from firm run by billionaire

March 2021

  • Glympton Park

    The foreign royals and billionaire tax exiles collecting UK's furlough millions

    Read the list of super-rich claimants, from Saudi princes to Dubai monarchs, tax exiles to the UK’s richest

May 2019

  • ‘Forget the rest, just give me roast potatoes and gravy.’

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    Spuds you like: how hypnosis helped Guy Hands go cold turkey on roast potatoes

    The financier and former owner of EMI Guy Hands says he could eat 10 roasties in one sitting. It was bad for his health, so he took drastic action

February 2019

  • ‘Ruined my Christmas’ ... Radiohead in Oxford, November 2007, three months after Guy Hands’s Terra Firma bought EMI.

    Chasing rainbows: inside the battle between Radiohead and EMI's Guy Hands

    A new book details the saga of private equity company Terra Firma acquiring EMI in August 2007 for £4.2bn. This extract details the battle over Radiohead’s seventh album

March 2018

  • National Rail property

    Private equity firms among bidders for Network Rail property business

    Blackstone and Terra Firma understood to be tabling bids in sale that campaigners claim will leave ‘gaping hole’ in infrastructure budget

January 2018

  • Terra Firma boss Guy Hands.

    MoD lost up to £4.2bn through sale of military homes, says audit office

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    Lost in showbiz
    Britain’s ghastliest financial sublebrities – a who’s who

December 2017

  • Nils Pratley

    Nils Pratley on finance
    A shocking way to fund UK care homes

    Nils Pratley
    The Four Seasons Health Care crisis is mainly down to financial engineering gone wrong. Have we learned nothing?
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