Properties

Fitzrovia-based developer English Rose has bought the long leasehold on a luxury resi scheme on the Strand. Legal & General Property sold the upper parts of 406-408 Strand for £11.

It had plenty of build-up, and Lot 60 in Savills' October auction didn't disappoint.

Harcourt Investments - an SPV by Sunley Group - has bought Harcourt House on Cavendish Square for something close to £75m, with a plan to turn the ornate Edwardian mansion block back into resi.

It's all kicking off on The Bishops Avenue. Investment group LJ Capital has bought up ten properties on the exclusive road in North London - dubbed "Billionaires' Row" - in an off-market, 48-hour mega-deal.

St James, part of the Berkeley Group, has just bought a massive former convent in West London, which it plans to redevelop into a resi-led scheme next year.

Plans for mobile phone mogul John Caudwell's new Mayfair mansion have just gone public;

Grosvenor has bought a 12-acre swathe of Bermondsey and Southwark in South London, on which it plans to build 800 new homes and a business hub.

Gehry Partners and Foster + Partners, two of the world’s most stellar architectural practices, have been chosen to design Phase 3 at Battersea Power Station.

Christian Candy's CPC Group has reportedly been making some enquiries into the sale of the Hyde Park Barracks site in Knightsbridge.

Property developer St James has decided to give the Royal College of Art an open studio space in its 806-resi unit Riverlight scheme in VNEB (Vauxhall, Nine Elms and Battersea).

Alan Waxman, MD of prime developer Landmass, lays down his five favourite projects and ten golden rules... What are your ten principles of development? Ask yourself, who’s going to buy it?

Frogmore, Galliard Homes and O'Shea have teamed up with celebrity snapper David Bailey to show the best side of the partnership's new 44-unit Marylebone development, The Chilterns.