Properties
Prime Property of the Week: Bankside Story
Penthouse, NEO Bankside
£19.75m
The Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners-designed NEO Bankside scheme has won pretty much every property award going during its short existence, and rightly so.
Is there such a thing as a Blue Plaque premium?
Blue Plaques are back in business - hurrah! But is it worth paying extra for a property with one of them stuck on the front of it? In a word, no, says top buying agent Jonathan Mount...
Checking Out: Three Holland Road hotels hit the market
It's pretty unusual to see three hotels put up for sale in the Royal Borough on the same day, let alone on the same road.
Prussian princesses, hidden jewels, royal servants: Kensington house with incredible back story hits the market
If your clients are after something with a 'story', then this house just around the corner from Kensington Palace could be just the ticket.
Christie’s Fine Arts Warehouse to make way for new resi scheme
Christies Fine Arts Warehouse in Nine Elms is to be turned into a new mixed-use development, providing 510 new homes.
One of Scotland’s biggest estates sells for over £11m
One of the largest Scottish estates to become available in recent years has just sold for over its £11m guide price.
Indiabulls buys JLL’s Mayfair HQ for resi conversion
Ginormous Indian property group Indiabulls has bought JLL's 87,444 sq ft Mayfair HQ for £155m with plans to turn it into luxury flats.
Development Case Study: The Westminster office-to-resi scheme
Change of use may be all the rage in London, but how do you actually go about creating desirable, profitable units from an unloved office building?
Blue Plaques back in business thanks to just one donor
English Heritage has re-opened nominations for Blue Plaques in London, more than 18 months after swingeing funding cuts put the kibosh on new badges for buildings, after a single donor provided new funds.
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...
Indian buyers and developers make £1bn move on Mayfair
After an extraordinary eighteen-month-long buying spree, ultra high net worth purchasers, investors and developers from India have become the dominant overseas force in the Mayfair property market, according…
Tour of Beauty: New scheme launches with a ‘Ladies Day’
One firm has decided to inject a bit of glamour into the launch of a new development in Berkshire.