The Market
Taking stock of the ‘Best Place to Live in Britain 2016’
The former seat of King Alfred the Great added another feather to its cap at the weekend.
Asking prices have risen by 50% in ten years to breach £300k – but London has come to a standstill
The average price of a property coming to market in England and Wales has breached £300,000 for the first time, according to Rightmove's latest stats, but London prices are at a standstill.
‘Untouched’ Eaton Gate fixer-upper asks £10.8m
Grade II listed Ormonde House on Eaton Gate is being billed as "a bargain" and "the ultimate grand design home"
Agency puts a figure on the ‘Waitrose effect’
Right, salt at the ready; some new research has looked into the "Waitrose effect" on house prices.
Three years of perceived house price growth as ‘the fundamentals remain steady’
UK households think that the value of their property has risen every month for the last three years, according to the latest sentiment survey by Knight Frank and Markit.
Big brands banned as Battersea Power Station goes for a ‘village’ vibe
Developers have confirmed which shops, restaurants and cafés will be moving into the first phase of the £9bn scheme, Circus West
Berkeley warns on dangers of ‘one of the world’s highest property tax regimes’
A "stable" few months in the London housing market has kept demand ticking over for the Berkeley Group, although its luxury properties are selling at the same rate as they were in the run up to the…
Basement Wars: Feelings run deep in London’s quest for space
As two of London's most prosperous hedge fund managers lock horns over a 3,500 square foot basement extension in Holland Park, Belinda Walkinshaw surveys the current planning landscape and has some sage…
Argent and Galliard unveil London’s ‘most expensive and entertaining’ marketing suite
Galliard and Argent Design have laid claim to creating the "coolest", "most expensive" and "most entertaining" marketing suite in London, involving the repurposing of a Victorian viaduct in Shoreditch.
‘Rigorous’ council lettings agency lists just one property
It's been pointed out that the first lettings agency to be set up by a London council is currently advertising a solitary instruction.
Mortgage market ‘knocks it out of the park’ with biggest February since 2008
Gross mortgage lending reached £17.6bn in February, according to the latest from the Council of Mortgage Lenders; that's a 5% drop on January's £18.5bn but a chunky 30% above last February's £13.
Clivedale shows off its £1 billion super-prime London pipeline
Four-year plan to drip-feed the schemes through to the HNW market