Heritage
Baroness Thatcher’s last home to go on sale for £35m?
The Belgravia home of former Prime Minister Baroness Thatcher could be about to hit the market for up to £35m, according to reports.
Romancing the Stone: The houses built by love
Many a man has been driven to great lengths by love, and architecture is often a rewarding (though insatiable) mistress for such a passion, says Matthew Beckett...
Battersea Power Station launches placemaking manual
The Battersea Power Station Development Company has launched The Placebook: Battersea Power Station as part of the 2014 London Festival of Architecture
TfL HQ scheme called into question
A report has threatened to derail plans to sell off Transport for London's Grade I-listed HQ as luxury apartments.
To the Manor Bought: The Cotswold village on sale for £18m
Deep in rural Oxfordshire, the tiny village of Little Rollright is unusual in many ways.
HBRE’s new luxury developer enters the market with £24.25m Mayfair acquisition
EXCLUSIVE: Sons & Co, the newly-launched luxury development outfit funded by James Caan and Faisal Butt's Hamilton Bradshaw Real Estate (HBRE) and founded by the Stocker brothers, has made its first acquisition:…
Millgate buys Berkshire estate for resi conversion and new ‘discreet country mansions’
Developer Millgate (which merged with Essex-born construction form Countryside earlier this year) has bought the rather magnificent Woolley Hall and Wolley Grange in Berkshire, with plans to convert the…
INTERVIEW: City & Country’s Helen Moore on respectful heritage development
Fresh from overseeing the ambitious conversion of Bentley Priory in North London, Helen Moore, MD of developer City & Country, on respecting heritage, spotting opportunities and creating value...
First Impressionists: The value of art in property
Anyone who has the money can buy a plane, car or beautifully crafted clothes. Art is individual, says Joe Burns, and it plays a key role in selling today's prime and super-prime properties...
New Plans for Old: Renovation job for listed building system
The system for listed building consents is getting an overhaul, with the aim of creating a 'more effective and efficient' process with less bureaucracy and generally lower costs
First major estate deal of 2014: Shakenhurst sells for only second time in 665 years
Knight Frank has sold the 1,324 acre Shakenhurst Estate on the Worcestershire/Shropshire border for £16m, claiming it as England's "first major estate sale of 2014."
Bird’s Eye Viewing: Carter Jonas takes to the skies for £10m manor house
Carter Jonas has just launched one of Oxfordshire's finest estates onto the market, complete with a suitably Downton Abbey-esque video.