Properties of the Week
LA mansion sells to ‘homeless billionaire’, setting an auction price record
Once home to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and honeymoon destination for JFK, LA's Beverly House has sold at a bankruptcy auction for a reported $63.1 million.
£8.25m price tag for ‘one of Covent Garden’s grandest apartments’
Spectacular two-bed takes up the entire first floor of the neighbourhood’s oldest building.
Boutique developer boosts PCL pipeline
Following a recent success on Cliveden Place, Voza has teed up nine new projects, including properties on Halkin Street, Passmore Street and Kinnerton Place South.
Kensington townhouse built for Queen Victoria’s money man offered for £19m
This high-spec house on Cranley Gardens was originally home to Lord de Tabley, Treasurer to Queen Victoria.
£400m Southbank scheme tops out
Apartments went on sale at JTRE’s Triptych Bankside a year ago, with penthouses priced at over £9m.
Storied Northumberland castle could be a ‘magical’ private residence
With a back story involving aristocratic families, battles & ghosts, the historic Otterburn Castle has hit the open market at £3m.
Auctions can work for luxury penthouses too, says agency
Recent sale of £2.5m triplex 'defies the common perception of auctions as mostly focusing on properties at the lower end of the market', says Knight Frank.
Mandarin Oriental confirms new standalone resi project in Beverly Hills
The luxury hospitality group’s first standalone resi project on the US West Coast, at 9200 Wilshire Boulevard, will be delivering 54 top-end units designed by UK-based studio 1508 London.
Knightsbridge townhouse with potential pitched at £11m
Grade II listed six-bed on the corner of Ovington Square and Walton Street has permission to add significant square footage and a roof terrace.
‘Legacy unicorn property’ on St Barts offered for sale at $80m
An enormous and lavish Caribbean villa near Eden Rock Hotel in UHNW hotspot Saint Barthélemy is being offered for sale, asking US$80 million (c.£57.8m).
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AUS$100m Sydney penthouse ‘competes with the best homes in the world’
The 9,149 square foot duplex at the One Barangaroo scheme is expected to achieve one of the highest prices ever seen in the Australian market.