Properties
Life on Top (part two)
In the second of a two-part special feature, Dan Crofton looks at penthouse trends and buyer expectations.
New build values in Mayfair “to triple by 2050”
Shrill accusations and sullen aftermaths - who doesn't love a good old-fashioned "game" of Monopoly?
Mayfair penthouse sells for £19.5m (a 400% price increase in 16 years)
A penthouse on Park Lane has just sold for £19.5m, breaking the £4,000 per square foot barrier and achieving a 400 per cent appreciation since being sold by the same agent in 1996.
£60m prime resi opportunity for Cavendish Square?
A 63,000 square foot block at 19 Cavendish Square has just been put on the market for £60m with Whitmarsh Holt Young, Savills and Jones Lang LaSalle.
New “Gateway to Southwark” planned
Global asset management firm The Carlyle Group is planning to go big in Southwark: the firm is due to submit detailed plans for a 1.
Try before you buy
High-end holiday / property company Clarenco is trying to entice buyers for a bunch of its luxury and unusual properties by offering prospective purchasers the chance to try before they buy...
A letter from the Home Counties
In his first column for PrimeResi, Julian Amos scales the security gates to report back from the salubrious suburbs...
HS2: property owners “must act”
So proposals for the HS2 compensation and safeguarding schemes have finally been announced and on-the-ball Knight Frank are urging property owners to act now.
Crown Estate offers a peach of a resi development opportunity in the City
St Dunstan's House on Fetter Lane - a stonking development site in central London with planning for conversion from offices into 76 luxury residential apartments - has been put on the market by the Crown…
Bond Girls and Beatles: great for selling houses
A canny bit of promo from Knightsbridge estate agent Kaye & Carey points out that Ringo Starr's luxury pad, that he shared with his 'Bond Girl' missus Barbara Bach, has hit the market.
Home sweet second home
Cast your mind back to March last year and you may remember filling out the massive 2011 Census form and being asked whether or not you had a second address. No? It has been a long year.
Open House Day generates offers worth over £32m
Strutt & Parker's 8th National Open House Day, which took place this October, produced over £32m worth of offers for properties registered with the firm.