As the summer vacation season - in this most extraordinary of years - gets under way and some of the more conventional newsflow slackens, this news service is republishing features that the editorial team thinks made an impression so far in 2020.

It was not surprising that as the political tensions in Hong Kong continued to rise, even before the mainland's imposition of a national security law on the jurisdiction, the decibel count of noise around relocation and outflow of capital increased. This article looks at the Hong Kong-London connection and developments in the UK capital's real estate market.