Developments

Changes in planning policy may make things trickier for niche developers and private clients, but opportunities for single dwelling basement developments are still worth seizing, says Sheila McCusker...

Devonshire House, One Mayfair Place - a 175,000 sq ft office block on Piccadilly - has been put on the market for £400m++ with Strutt & Parker and H2SO.

It's now a bit easier to build on village greens, thanks to new landowner rights that came in yesterday (1st October 2013).

Carlyle Group's big plans for a "Gateway to Southwark" have been recommended for approval by the Council. Image by DBOX for the Carlyle Group and PLP Architecture

Soho and Mayfair are the West End's star resi performers, according to a new comprehensive review of the West End residential property market from Wetherell.

At 492 ft, Baltimore Tower will be the tallest residential building in Canary Wharf. And with the flagship penthouse slated at £6.95m (£1,148 psf), it's also one of E14's most expensive.

Fine & Country has set up a Land and New Homes division in Warwickshire and the West Midlands.

Already dubbed "Britain's most expensive house knock-down", Mayfair agency Wetherell has just started marketing a £35m Mount Row mews house with mighty aspirations.

Over 1.2 million square feet of office space in London's West End was converted into residential in 2012, according to new research by property consultants H2SO.

Developer Oakmayne Bespoke has snapped up a Grade II listed townhouse on Soho Square for £8m, which it plans to convert into five ultra-prime residences.

An extraordinary modern holiday home shoehorned into the crumbling walls of an ancient moated castle has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013 for the best new building of the year.

South of the river has been hogging the development limelight for the last few years, but the north bank has its very own massive power station scheme too.