Buyers paying ‘significantly more’ for homes with low-carbon tech, says Savills, as energy prices rise
59% of home-buyers are willing to pay extra for a home that primarily uses renewable energy, according to a new survey, while a third of buyers think EPC ratings are more important now than they were a year ago.
Beyond the eco-conscious affluent: Is there a green premium for new homes?
Consumer sentiment is increasing towards more sustainable "green" homes, say Lucy Greenwood & Patrick Eve of Savills, but only larger homes achieve a "green" premium.
Most home-buyers ‘don’t factor in energy efficiency in their purchase’ – yet
Less than a quarter of surveyors think that a property’s energy efficiency rating has any impact at all on a its selling price, according to a new survey by the RICS.
Sustainability climbs the agenda for home-owners & house-hunters
Around two fifths of future house-hunters say they would consider the energy efficiency of their next home, up sharply from just over one fifth who thought about this with their last property purchase
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Dexters buys Marsh & Parsons for £29mn
Another major acquisition creates London's biggest estate agency network.
‘We have always wanted to create the best independent, boutique agency in PCL’: PrimeResi meets Alex Bourne & Richard Douglas of London House
'We have broken records in almost every part of Prime Central London over the last few months'
Gove accelerates reform of ‘feudal’ leasehold system
Housing secretary Michael Gove is bringing forward plans to reform England's "outdated" leasehold system
In Pictures: Inside a £12.75mn ‘spectacle of a show apartment’ at West End Gate
A.London completes 4,664 sq ft penthouse project at latest Berkeley scheme in W2
Accouter achieves B Corp status
AGC is the the first British interior design collective to raise its social credentials with B Corp accreditation, joining the likes of Patagonia, The Modern House and The Portman Estate.
Ranked: The ten ‘most prominent’ estate agency brands in Britain
One prime estate agency has listed properties for sale in more than half of the nation's postcodes in the last six months, significantly out-covering any other brick-and-mortar firm.
CIT reports strong pre-launch sales at new super-prime scheme in Belgravia
Fleet-footed buyers have already snapped up 20% of the residences at 8 Eaton Lane ahead of this month's official launch
Saul Empson: What the Dickens is going on in the prime property market?
If we all stopped in our tracks every time the papers rang a bell to call the onset of the next property crash, none of us would have bought homes since 1998, says buying agent Saul Empson...
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