Properties
New price record reported in Hong Kong
A Shenzhen property firm owner has reportedly shelled out around HK$2.1 billion (just over £185m) for a new-build house on The Peak in Hong Kong.
Cogress raises £3.7m to fund Belsize Park scheme
Open equity investment platform Cogress has raised £3.7m for a new boutique development project in NW London's swanky Belsize Village.
$200m Playboy Mansion ‘sold to next-door neighbour’
It seems a deal has been struck on the $200m Playboy Mansion in LA.
L&G premieres resi transformation of former Pathé Films Building
Legal & General Property has pulled the covers off an important new scheme in London's Soho.
Remote Scottish island castle offered for renovation
A 260-year-old Georgian castle on one of Scotland’s remote islands has come up for sale, although the agent warns that "this is not a project for the fainthearted".
£22.5m Billionaires’ Row wreck back on the market
One of the last remaining development sites on The Bishops Avenue in north London has become available again.
Rare Kensington development opp up for £22m
A pair of walloping great townhouses have come up for sale on Vicarage Gate, offering the scope to create something pretty special in the midst of the Kensington Palace Conservation Area.
‘Chance to create one of London’s finest homes’ up for sale at £24m
A mighty interesting instruction has just hit the books in St John's Wood, billed as "an opportunity to purchase and create one of the finest homes in London".
Buyers ‘still doing battle’ at auction
We hear some 2,000 buyers rocked up to Allsop's latest resi auction at the Cumberland Hotel, spending a combined £63m between them.
Records reveal flurry of super-prime deals lodged during last week of ‘mad March’
Official records have shed some light on a slew of super-prime transactions registered during the last week of March.
Pygmalion mansion in Marylebone offered for £14.95m
A grand Marylebone mansion, formerly owned by George Bernard Shaw's inspiration for Professor Henry Higgins in Pygmalion (and My Fair Lady), has been put up for sale with a £14.95m asking price.
Opportunity Knocks: London’s best super-prime fixer-uppers
You'd be forgiven for assuming that all of the houses in London's top addresses had, by now, been painted in muted tones and scented with notes of sandalwood.