Properties

Berkeley Homes has launched a new phase of its "landmark" Goodman's Field development in Aldgate in the heart of finance-town.

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.

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.

One of the most high profile development sites in the capital hits the market today, brandishing a £250m price tag.

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.

Bolton Street, Mayfair, London Offers Over £8.25m

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.

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.

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.

One of the most prestigious properties in the Lake District - Underscar Manor - has been snapped up for an undisclosed sum.

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.

"Life at Upton Cressett often resembles a mongrel cross combining the best and worst of Fawlty Towers, Tom Sharpe and To The Manor Born," says William Cash from Shropshire as he opens up his historic…