Deals & Instructions

A tasty opportunity on Knightsbridge's Egerton Gardens and a repossessed £5m+ house in prime Marylebone should get the room buzzing nicely at tomorrow's Allsop resi auction.

Britain's most expensive repossession - a "quite modest" £29.

Fitzrovia-based developer English Rose has bought the long leasehold on a luxury resi scheme on the Strand. Legal & General Property sold the upper parts of 406-408 Strand for £11.

It had plenty of build-up, and Lot 60 in Savills' October auction didn't disappoint.

Harcourt Investments - an SPV by Sunley Group - has bought Harcourt House on Cavendish Square for something close to £75m, with a plan to turn the ornate Edwardian mansion block back into resi.

It's all kicking off on The Bishops Avenue. Investment group LJ Capital has bought up ten properties on the exclusive road in North London - dubbed "Billionaires' Row" - in an off-market, 48-hour mega-deal.

St James, part of the Berkeley Group, has just bought a massive former convent in West London, which it plans to redevelop into a resi-led scheme next year.

Plans for mobile phone mogul John Caudwell's new Mayfair mansion have just gone public;

Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners, two of the world’s most stellar architectural practices, have been chosen to design Phase 3 at Battersea Power Station.

The Howard de Walden Estate has managed to piece together planning permission for ten linked sites over 78,890 sq ft to enable a major redevelopment of the Wigmore Street end of Marylebone Lane.

Great Portland Estates has been given the thumbs up for its proposed £500m development of the former Post Office site at Rathbone Place, W1.

The Cadogan Estate has gone with John McAslan + Partners to carry out an initial feasibility study for "a new vision for Sloane Street".