Properties

It sounds like overseas buyers still can't get enough of London's boxfresh developments.

Free the leviathan of residential construction from the callous shackles of planning control, says Edward Keene... What sort of London are we building?

Reddy Architecture + Urbanism has got the lead architect gig for a £50m 23 storey, mixed use retail and residential development in the middle of London's Aldgate.

It sounds like Roman Abramovich has put his plan to renovate a mansion on the banks of the Thames in Chelsea on hold for the time being.

"Significant investor demand" has prompted London Central Portfolio to open up the doors again to its Sharia-compliant London Central Apartments fund.

Telly presenter-turned-developer Kevin McCloud has harnessed the power of the internet to raise a cool £1m and grow his Bristol-based property firm.

Buying off-plan has come a very long way since the days of crossed fingers and sums on the back of a ciggy packet, but it can still feel like taking a punt.

Pre-completion sales across the capital have reached record levels, according to CBRE, with three in five homes now sold before they are built.

Savills has launched an historic Scottish estate with grouse moor today, on The Glorious Twelfth, and expects its reception from buyers to "set the benchmark for the level of demand in Scotland this year."

Opening a historic home to the public is no tea party, discovers William Cash as he gets into hot water with the W.I. during a Wodehouse-worthy episode at Upton Cressett.

Here's a snappy marketing idea from the Ballymore Group...

Christian Candy is planning to create one of the biggest resi basement complexes in London under his new family pad, Gordon House in the grounds of the Royal Hospital Chelsea.