In Pictures: London’s best-designed new home extensions
25 projects have been shortlisted for this year’s Don’t Move, Improve! award.
Green light for East London’s vast Westferry Printworks development
Richard Desmond’s 15-acre former print works site on the Isle of Dogs is set to deliver around 1,500 new homes.
New mortgage lending dips by 10%
10.6% fewer homemover mortgages completed in November 2019 compared to the same month a year earlier – although the decline “reflects particularly strong home-purchase activity in November 2018”
Winkworth shares jump after positive trading update
Agency set to outperform market expectations after riding out an ‘uncertain and difficult’ 2019
UK house prices post 2.2% annual rise
Monthly movement of 0.4% between October and November compared with a fall of 0.4% at the same point in 2018; agents expecting ‘release of pent-up demand’ and for the market to return to ‘business-as-usual’
‘Prices are rising across more global cities but at a slower rate’ – Knight Frank
At +24%, Budapest saw the fastest residential property price inflation of any major world city in the year to September 2019
Caudwell sells turnkey Côte d’Azur penthouse
In Pictures: British property developer Caudwell bags €6m+ for a lavish contemporary penthouse flat at Parc du Cap in Cap d’Antibes
Far East Consortium sets up UK construction arm
DEX Construction has been launched by FEC Group in Manchester to take over from Bardsley Construction, which went into administration just before Christmas.
New MD for London Central Portfolio
Liam Monaghan takes on the managing director role at Naomi Heaton’s PCL real estate investment advisory
Zoopla reveals surge in branch numbers
Over 2,250 branches joined Zoopla in 2019, including from Carter Jonas, Dacre, Son & Hartley, and Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward
New head of UK property management at CBRE
David Fogarty to replace Emma Buckland, who steps up as global president of the firm’s property management business
New electrical safety regs for rental flats to come into force
Every fixed electrical installation in a rental property will need to be inspected and tested at least every five years by a qualified person.