Marketing
Branded Developments: The impact of branding on luxury residential developments
A snazzy address or pithy postcode is just not enough: The most successful new luxury developments are creating entire brand experiences, not just homes, for HNW buyers.
RESI Awards 2013 open for entries
There's another property awards event in town! Everyone's a winner!
Autumn bloom for prime London
With just six more weeks of marketing left until Christmas, some more evidence things have been hotting up in the prime central London sales market;
Life on Top (part two)
In the second of a two-part special feature, Dan Crofton looks at penthouse trends and buyer expectations.
New build values in Mayfair “to triple by 2050”
Shrill accusations and sullen aftermaths - who doesn't love a good old-fashioned "game" of Monopoly?
Mayfair penthouse sells for £19.5m (a 400% price increase in 16 years)
A penthouse on Park Lane has just sold for £19.5m, breaking the £4,000 per square foot barrier and achieving a 400 per cent appreciation since being sold by the same agent in 1996.
Try before you buy
High-end holiday / property company Clarenco is trying to entice buyers for a bunch of its luxury and unusual properties by offering prospective purchasers the chance to try before they buy...
Bond Girls and Beatles: great for selling houses
A canny bit of promo from Knightsbridge estate agent Kaye & Carey points out that Ringo Starr's luxury pad, that he shared with his 'Bond Girl' missus Barbara Bach, has hit the market.
Open House Day generates offers worth over £32m
Strutt & Parker's 8th National Open House Day, which took place this October, produced over £32m worth of offers for properties registered with the firm.
New research boss for Jones Lang LaSalle
Jones Lang LaSalle has appointed a new head of UK Research.
UK Property Awards: The Winners
The prime property industry was out in force on Friday for the UK Property Awards at the London Marriott Hotel on Grosvenor Square, with Oliver Burns's Walpole Mayfair and the Lakes by yoo each scooping…
Poole Harbour luxury development unveiled
Development Securities and Haxted Estates have unveiled a rather natty new luxury development overlooking Poole Harbour, next to the Sandbanks Peninsula.