Properties
Murray Birrell recruits building conservation specialist
London-based Chartered Surveyors Murray Birrell has appointed an historic buildings guru as Associate Director to bump the firm's listed building expertise.
Prime Property of the Week: King George III’s Banquet Hall
King George III Suite, Albury Park, Surrey
£6m
As far as reception rooms go, this 42-foot marvel, the actual venue for King George III's Coronation Banquet in 1761, is hard to beat.
Savills partners up in Paris
Savills has announced a tie-up with top-end Parisian firm Agence Varenne.
Going for Green & Gold: Manhattan Loft Gardens to launch IN Harrods
Harrods Estates and Manhattan Loft Corporation have come up with a winning marketing ploy to launch a much-anticipated scheme on the site of the 2012 Olympics.
Ballymore in £2.2bn joint venture with Malaysian investors
Big-spending Malaysian investors have backed Ballymore Group to develop three resi projects in London worth a whopping £2.2bn.
The Embassy Gardens lobby
More luxury resi for Covent Garden as Capco strikes again on Bedford Street
Capital & Counties has continued its "tactical acquisition strategy" in Covent Garden with the bagging of yet another key site.
Royal Borough nudges listed building owners
Kensington & Chelsea council is "reminding" owners of the borough's listed buildings about their responsibilities, sending out a mailshot to all listed homes and launching a new web page .
Royal Mail surplus sites valued at £1bn
City fund managers reckon the value of Royal Mail's portfolio of redundant sorting offices and sites has doubled in under two years.
Mount Pleasant sorting office
Foster + Partners’ Shoreditch skyscraper gets off to a flyer
Units at Principal Tower, London's first resi tower to be designed inside and out by Foster + Partners, have been selling like locally-sourced artisan hotcakes.
HSBC injects £165m development facility to Barts Square
Helical Bar has secured a new £165m revolving credit facility for its Barts Square scheme in the City of London.
The moneys, provided by HSBC at an all-inclusive 3.
Style icon’s penthouse asks £6.95m
Is this the most fashionable apartment on the market right now?
‘Red Baron’ swoops in to rescue Apethorpe Hall
A 48-bedroom Jacobean mansion, described by Simon Thurley as "by far the most important country house to have been threatened with major loss through decay since the 1950s", has been bought by a French…