PrimeResi’s essential review of the most significant luxury transactions of the year, from Chelsea to Hampstead.
Happy Holidays: PrimeResi will resume full service in January 2026
Wishing all our readers health, happiness, peace and prosperity - and a very merry festive break.
Super-Prime Deal Digest: 35 of 2025’s standout London property sales
PrimeResi’s essential review of the most significant luxury transactions of the year, from Chelsea to Hampstead.
Super-Prime Deal Digest: 15 of 2025’s standout country property sales
PrimeResi’s essential review of the most significant luxury transactions of the year, from Shropshire to Surrey.
In Conversations: PrimeResi’s must-read interviews of H2 2025
Six more profiles of property industry leaders who have been shaping the luxury resi sector this year.
Monday Market Review: Key figures & findings from the last seven days
Your essential five-minute briefing on the latest market movements & commentary, featuring data, forecasts and analysis from Savills, Foxtons, ONS, LonRes, Jackson-Stops, Acadata, Property Vision, RedBook…
Ranked: London’s fastest-performing planning authorities
Planning decision times have fallen while approval rates have edged higher across prime London & the Home Counties.
Behind the Schemes: Top architect designs his own family home in North London
RHA founder Robert Hirschfield applied his studio’s guiding philosophy to the reworking of his personal residence - here’s the result...
Alpine homes keep climbing while global prime markets catch their breath
'The Alpine property market has shifted from seasonal playgrounds to year-round sanctuaries,' notes Knight Frank.
Acquisition agency flags 12 buying trends to watch in 2026
Specialists from Stacks’ national network pick the property features set to be most in demand in the year ahead...
London rental prices steady as tenant demand holds firm
'Rental prices continue to track close to historic norms,' says Foxtons, 'pointing to healthy competition across the market.'
Weekly Showcase: Ten featured prime resi listings
PrimeResi's regular stock check, powered by LonRes
Dar Global’s Trump Dubai tower pitches highest pool & NYC-style penthouses
London-listed developer awards big construction contract as it prepares to deliver 'new global icon'.
Quote of the day
The Alpine property market has shifted from seasonal playgrounds to year-round sanctuaries.
Life Goes On: Charlie Ellingworth on the Budget aftermath & prospects for 2026
Property Vision's co-founder reflects on the damage done to the property market and wider economy in 2025 – but notes some encouraging signs for the year ahead...
Resi Development Review: Oliver Knight on the sector’s ‘most challenging year in recent memory’ & expectations for 2026
Knight Frank's head of UK resi development research takes stock of a turbulent 2025 - and looks at what the next 12 months might offer for landowners, developers, and investors.
‘Momentum shows little sign of slowing’: Branded resi sector records another year of ‘exceptional growth’
Fresh analysis by Savills suggests the global branded residential development niche expanded by nearly a fifth in 2025.
Branded Residences: Louis Keighley on what’s still missing from the sector
Savills' Global Residential Development Consultancy chief identifies three big opportunities in the rapidly expanding branded resi arena...
RBKC signs off on £10bn Earls Court scheme
Decision completes dual-borough backing for the transformation of central London's biggest cleared development site.
Forecast: Prime regional markets to rebound as ‘normality resumes’ in 2026
Jackson-Stops anticipates a more settled year for top-end property markets in the coming year.
Prime London Property Market Snapshot: Week 50, 2025
Our latest LonRes data confirms prime London's weakest year since the pandemic, with little sign of a post-Budget bounce in buying activity.
Investor-developer acquires 86-unit PCL portfolio for £28mn
'A few years ago, you simply wouldn’t have seen assets of this quality and in these locations pricing at that level,' said Leufroy, which has exchanged on a quartet of buildings in Notting Hill & Kensington.
Editor's Choice
Rare unmod opp on the famous garden square could become one of RBKC’s finest residences, say agents.
International property news
Overseas company ownership of property nearly doubles over decade
The total value of overseas-owned property in England & Wales has continued to climb in recent years, but more slowly than in the late 2010s.
New apartment price record set in Hong Kong
Boost for city's luxury market as huge duplex reportedly sells for $113mn.
UK joins global push to share property ownership data
Cross-border property transparency strengthened as government signs OECD framework.
New York Ritz-Carlton residence in ‘philanthropic’ $28mn sale
100% of the super-prime sale proceeds will go Vicki & Roger Sant's Summit Foundation.
Knight Frank launches Private Office in Australia
Ari Petrovs is leading the property consultancy's latest HNW-focused division.
Profiles & Interviews
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with David Matthews
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
Building Legacies: Michael Houlding of Boldfort on delivering London’s top-end homes
Interview: MD of longstanding family-run contractor reveals what it really takes to create dream residences for UHNW clients, from Belgravia to Notting Hill.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Joanna Cocking
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Chelsea Whelan
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Jonathan Woods
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
Interiors & Design
Watch: RIBA names 2025’s Grand Designs House of the Year
Self-built Hebridean cottage wins annual architecture competition.
Legendary architect Frank Gehry dies, aged 96
His notable designs include the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and Prospect Place at Battersea Power Station.
Project London doubles revenue & kicks off international expansion
High-end design studio founded by two former buying agents reports 'landmark' year & gears up to launch Dubai base.
Property consultancy faces six-figure fine for unauthorised works on Grade I listed building
Court rules Knight Frank made alterations to an historic building in Bath without the necessary consents.
Planning nod for HollandGreen’s ‘fresh take’ on multigenerational living in Berkshire
'It’s about creating a home that adapts to people’s lives rather than the other way around,' says design studio of pioneering new project.
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Special Report: Prime London 25
Prime London 25: Introducing a PrimeResi Special Report
The evolution of London's luxury property market, 2000-2025: Our 75-page report charts a truly transformative period for both the property market & the prime residential industry.
Charted: The evolution of London’s prime property market, 2000-2025
Exclusive LonRes data reveal which parts of the capital’s prime property market have seen the most significant price growth over the last 25-years.
Seismic Shifts, 2000-2025: The global events that moved the needle on London’s prime property market
Cathy Hawker explores how the fluctuating fortunes of Prime Central London can be tied to major international economic events of the past 25 years.
Rise of the Broker: How the business of prime London agency has changed since 2000
Alexandra Goss charts the changing face of luxury property agency over the last 25 years, from the mainstreaming of buying agents & the introduction of private offices, to the rise of independent brokers.
Smart Home Market: How luxury property agents embraced the digital age
Ruth Bloomfield explores the new gadgets & technological leaps that have shaped London’s prime property sector since the turn of the millennium – including portals, smartphones & social media.
LonRes founders Carrington & Payne on 25 years in the prime London property arena
A personal view of how Prime Central London has evolved since the turn of the century, by William Carrington & Anthony Payne - who founded LonRes in the year 2000.
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Run your project like a pro.
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Jefferies James is a property brokerage with expertise in the selling and letting of luxury real estate in Prime Central London and its surrounding regions.
Inglis Hall
We are makers of authentic, bespoke kitchens and architectural interiors using real materials and traditional craft. Based in Lewes, East Sussex. Projects UK wide.
Simon English Property Search
Simon English Property Search specialises in sourcing, negotiating and acquiring residential property in London and the Home Counties on behalf of UK and overseas clients.
Icon Capital International | Mayfair Office
Icon Capital International are private client advisors exclusively for UHNWIs & HNWIs operating in Central London’s golden boroughs - in Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Chelsea, Hyde Park Corner & Mayfair…