In Pictures: Fenton Whelan’s Spring party at Kensington Palace
Over 300 guests attended James Van den Heule and Sanjay Sharma’s Spring Party, celebrating the topping out of the luxury property developers’ Park Modern scheme overlooking Hyde Park.
Ch4 doubles down on ‘Britain’s Most Expensive Houses’, starring Sotheby’s Realty
Channel 4 has commissioned another series of its glossy fly-on-the-wall TV show following UK Sotheby’s International Realty, doubling its order from four to eight episodes.
In Pictures: New visualisations of Queensway’s £3bn transformation
Five property developers are working together to overhaul Queensway in Bayswater, promising “a blueprint for the future of London’s high streets”, book-ended by super-prime residential schemes.
In Pictures: This is the ideal luxury home, according to research
Luxury Portfolio International has brought some research to life, mocking up a fantasy home that showcases prime property buyers’ seven key demands.
The Economist: Londongrad is falling down
A long-read feature in The Economist delves into the networks and key players in Londongrad’s fallen economy, profiling some familiar faces along the way.
Ranked: Britain’s best places to live in 2022
Prime property buying agency Garrington has rated and ranked nearly 1,400 towns, cities and villages across the UK – measuring a dozen criteria ranging from green credentials and architectural beauty to crime rates and house prices, to come up with a definitive list of the best places to live in 2022.
Ranked: The best places to live for globetrotting ‘executive nomads’
“The modern executive nomad – a distant cousin of the freelance creative working from a cafe in Bali or Costa Rica – owns a villa in the Algarve or a condo in Miami, attends Zoom calls from an airy home office, and hops on a flight back to London, New York, or Geneva for the quarterly board meeting”, explains Savills.
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.
Popular Cornwall left out of ‘Best Places to Live’ rundown as housing crisis deepens
Judges of the influential annual Sunday Times guide take decision “in recognition of the problems caused in the county’s housing market by incomers buying second homes”.
Back in Town: ‘Buyers are saying that they found rural life lonely and quiet’
“London’s suburbs are now red hot,” says buying agent Sara Ransom, as house-hunters look to return to city life. Buyers in Putney, Dulwich, Wimbledon, Richmond and Greenwich in particular “should sharpen their elbows.”
London retains Schroders’ Top Global City crown
London, Boston, San Francisco, New York and Melbourne are the best global cities, says asset management giant Schroders.
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.