The Telegraph: The London film boom and where the Hollywood stars rent, from Tom Cruise’s penthouse to Brad Pitt’s mansion
Zoe Dare Hall takes Telegraph readers on a whistle-stop tour of properties with A-list connections, and goes behind the scenes to explore what’s been driving London’s luxury short-let boom…
Urban commons are under siege in the age of austerity – here’s how to protect them
The UK’s surviving urban commons are precious green spaces, says law professor Christopher Rodgers, but the laws that protect them are confusing, complicated and in some cases outdated…
Guy Meacock on the very real threat to London’s urban villages
London’s idiosyncratic ‘villages’ – from Barnes to Marylebone High Street – contribute a large part to London’s international appeal, says Guy Meacock of buying agency Prime Purchase. But the homogenisation of British high streets is threatening the heart and soul of the capital’s local neighbourhoods…
‘London’s new foodie hub’: Cadogan announces raft of F&B openings in Chelsea
Landowner looks to follow the successful transformation of Pavilion Road by instigating a ‘dining renaissance’ on the King’s Road…
On the Science of Place: Ten steps for successful placemaking (and why St James’s Square is officially London’s most beautiful address)
‘Groundbreaking’ study by Cadogan & Create Streets looks into what really makes a place tick, providing ten key steps for developers, architects, planning authorities and landowners to follow, and explaining why the design of St James’s Square remains unsurpassed three centuries on…
‘We Are Hampstead!’: North London residents up in arms over boundary redraw
Proposals to reclassify a number of streets in the Hampstead Town ward as Gospel Oak have not gone down well in NW3…
New York is billionaires’ favourite city
The Big Apple is home to 85 billionaires, say Savills and Forbes. Singapore, in second place, has 79 resident billionaires, while Moscow, Beijing and London have 71, 61 and 55 respectively
In Pictures: The 2019 HQR Summer Ball
Prime resi construction firms raise £110k for worthy causes as 650 guests descend on Park Lane for the annual charity bash
FT: Whatever happened to the rock star country mansion?
Arts writer and pop critic Ludovic Hunter-Tilney suggests the lights have finally gone down on the glorious era of rock star mansions in this entertaining piece for the Financial Times