Properties
Has this Vauxhall tower block just been sold for £90m?
A brutalist landmark in Vauxhall, SW London, has reportedly been sold for £90m to make way for a £600m luxury resi scheme.
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New York ‘townhouse in the sky’ still aiming high after eight years on the market
It may be one of New York City's most spectacular residential properties, but it seems as though this five-storey penthouse has yet to find a buyer after a full eight years on the market.
Bouygues bags £14.4m Hempel contract
Construction firm Bouygues UK has landed a £14.4m contract to transform the former Hempel Hotel in Bayswater into its new guise as a luxury apartment scheme.
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Berkeley launches Goodman’s Fields next phase
Berkeley Homes has launched a new phase of its "landmark" Goodman's Field development in Aldgate in the heart of finance-town
Officers-to-Resi? £250m New Scotland Yard site goes up for sale
One of the most high profile development sites in the capital hits the market today, brandishing a £250m price tag.
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Special Delivery: Galliard bags grand Clapham scheme
Galliard Homes has acquired the grandiose 24,757 sq ft former HQ of the Union of Post Office Workers in Clapham with plans to turn it into 29 luxury apartments.
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Homeward Bound: The West End’s 1.8m sq ft office-to-resi pipeline
Just under 800,000 sq ft of West End offices were converted into homes in 2013, says Colliers International, with another 1.82m sq ft of conversion projects now in the homeward-bound pipeline.
City & Country lands £25m Grade I-listed Jacobean mansion
Residential developer City & Country has just bought one of the country's most important period mansions - the Grade I-listed Police College at Bramshill in Hampshire - for an undisclosed sum.
‘Iconic’ 420-bed Earls Court hostel hits the market for £27.5m
A mega-instruction of four interlinked Victorian houses spanning Barkston Gardens and Courtfield Gardens has just become available at a smidgen over £800 per square foot.
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Local man buys one of the Lake District’s finest houses
One of the most prestigious properties in the Lake District - Underscar Manor - has been snapped up for an undisclosed sum.
PCL development land values soar
Residential development land prices in prime central London rose by 6.7% in Q2, reports Knight Frank, while the average increase across England & Wales languished at +1% for the quarter