Vendor navigated RBKC’s notoriously tough planning system to turn the explorer’s former family home into an art-filled ‘masterpiece’.
Shackleton’s Kensington base lists at £20mn after owner’s ‘extraordinary journey’
Vendor navigated RBKC’s notoriously tough planning system to turn the explorer’s former family home into an art-filled ‘masterpiece’.
Social Circuit: Marcus Cooper Group & Valouran launch boutique St John’s Wood scheme
In Pictures: Property crowd gathers to toast the conversion of a landmark former chapel into five luxury apartments.
Agency pledges full Primrose Hill sale fee to local charity
House Collective calls on businesses to give more back to their neighbourhoods, as it donates its sales commission to support young people affected by violence and school exclusion.
An Oxford economist’s verdict on Britain’s housing market: High taxes, soaring land values & a system in need of repair
Professor John Muellbauer makes a fresh case for halving Stamp Duty and replacing Council Tax, while branding the mansion tax 'poorly designed'.
What could the Conservatives’ inheritance tax pledge mean for prime homeowners?
Private client lawyer Jemma Hotta considers the potential implications for valuable homes and the families inheriting them.
London’s development retreat gathers pace
Next phase of 53-acre south-east London scheme goes on hold, as weak sales and rising costs test the capital’s biggest developers.
Property price drops spread as buyer choice builds
35% of UK homes are in areas that have seen property prices fall over the last 12 months, rising to 85% across London and the South East.
Savills: ‘The top end of London’s prime market is being driven by the most discretionary of buyers’
Latest data reveals how big spenders are keeping things moving in PCL's most exclusive neighbourhoods.
Savills brings in Aston Chase veteran Rosenblatt
Firm bolsters St John's Wood team with one of NW London's best-known operators.
Budget 2026: The prime resi industry’s hopes, fears & expectations
Special Feature: PrimeResi surveyed leading estate agents, buying agents, developers & advisors to gauge the luxury property sector's feelings & forecasts about this week's big fiscal event.
From Osborne to Reeves: Which Budgets were best & worst for prime London property?
Fresh Beauchamp Estates analysis tracks prime and super-prime sales through seven fiscal statements - as agency calls for end to annual guessing game.
Chestertons Global adds eight markets; bolsters leadership team
220-year-old property brand proclaims a 'landmark year' as it announces a trio of senior appointments.
Quote of the day
Stamp Duty on transactions is progressive, but the high marginal rates calcify the housing market, discouraging mobility and down-sizing, and limiting choice
Groundhog Day: On Budget déjà vu & why London’s super-prime market refuses to roll over
Another Budget, another round of doom and gloom - but buying agency boss Richard Rogerson has been digging through the £10mn-plus sales figures, and London isn't quite as lifeless as some are saying.
Behind the Schemes: Fine art meets architecture in Little Venice townhouse revival
In Pictures: SHH Architecture & Interiors brings a six-storey canal-side home back to life after a decade standing empty, unveiling the results during Frieze Week.
The casualties of indecision: Louisa Brodie on when an asking price isn’t really an asking price
Banda's Head of Private Clients shares her take on 'an increasingly frustrating aspect' of the prime & super-prime rental market.
Prime London sales still ‘sluggish’ despite September stirrings
LonRes records the slowest September for transactions since 2016, although the £5mn-plus sector is showing signs of life.
‘There is a tangible value shift’: Alexander Lewis on Lancaster Gate’s coming of age
Development & investment guru explores how a wave of projects is transforming a long-overlooked corner of W2.
Winkworth: PCL deal-making hits 18-month low as buyers tighten the screws
Even heavily discounted stock isn't cheap enough for buyers, reports agency, as chief exec bemoans annual ritual of autumn tax speculation.
Russell Simpson recruits Strutts veteran Meacock
Notting Hill sales chief, who helped launch two high-profile London offices, makes move to the expanding family-run agency.
Mansion tax territory: Three withdrawals per £2mn-plus sale; twice the wait for a buyer
New figures reveal the scale of the challenges facing the top end of England's housing market, with another Budget imminent and the HVCTS looming large.
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International property news
In Pictures: 9,000 sq ft Kennedy-linked penthouse in South of France seeks $45mn
Caudwell debuts Invisible Collection-designed residence at Le Provençal, one of the biggest apartment launches on the French Riviera this year.
Ultra-luxe Rosewood hotel residences go up for sale in Abu Dhabi
Mubadala puts 73 homes inside the landmark five-star hotel on the market, with Sotheby's handling the sales.
‘Selling Sunset’ brokerage sets sights on Dubai
Oppenheim Group lines up 7,000 sq ft base, with plans to double its agent team - and make Dubai its biggest office globally.
Fine & Country opens Palma outpost
Former pro footballer to lead estate agency's new Spanish operation.
Top-flight London design studio expands into Middle East
Laura Hammett is opening a permanent base in Dubai next month.
Profiles & Interviews
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Hamptons’ Peter Whyte
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 Savills’ Victoria Garrett
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 Simon Deen
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
From PCL to Cape Town: Sophie Gamborg on taking the buying advisory model overseas
Two decades after starting out in London’s prime resi market, the former Savills & Aylesford agent explains how she spotted a gap in Cape Town - and built a business around it.
My Property Career: Quickfire Q&A with Jane Cronwright-Brown
Recruitment guru Barry Collins chats with prime resi industry leaders & entrepreneurs, distilling decades of experience & career highlights into 60 seconds.
Interiors & Design
BIID Interior Design Awards 2026: The Winners
IN PICTURES: Design crowd gathers at Drapers’ Hall for annual awards bash, with resi winners ranging from London townhouses to country estates and international projects.
South London housing scheme takes 2026 Stirling Prize
Council-commissioned development of 157 homes in Croydon takes architecture’s top UK honour, beating five shortlisted projects including Renzo Piano’s Paddington Square.
Middle East project consultancy makes move on European market
London-based design specialist brought in to spearhead UAE firm's next phase of growth.
Function Vs Form: What happens when luxury design forgets how a building actually works
Sebastian Moritz runs through the importance of reading building designs from an operational perspective.
Albion Nord builds senior team as international ambitions grow
Super-prime design studio makes quartet of high-level appointments as it expands its portfolio across the UK and overseas.
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