The Market
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…
‘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
Details published on UK properties owned by overseas companies
Detailed information went public today on 100,000 property titles in England and Wales registered to foreign owned companies.
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.
North Ken Crossrail station ‘back on the agenda’
After going underground for a couple of years, the idea of adding a Lizzie Line stop in North Kensington has resurfaced.
Boris restricts office-to-resi to ‘protect London’s commercial heartland’
The Mayor of London has published a new batch of planning rules for the capital's "Central Activities Zone", which runs from Kensington Gardens and Paddington in the west, to Aldgate in the east, and…
Osborne extends SDLT surcharge and cracks down on offshore developers #Budget 2016
"We can choose to be a force for stability", said Chancellor George at the start of today's Budget speech, but four overhauls of the nation's finances within 12 months - two full Budgets, an extra Summer…
#Budget2016: The prime property industry reacts
"Meh" pretty much sums up a lot of reactions to Chancellor George's eighth Budget speech.
Budget Briefing: Stamp Duty & Additional Residential Properties
The government made a surprise annoucement in 2015’s Autumn Statement, proposing a 3% levy on additional properties.
Required Reading: The Budget 2016
Here's top law firm Mishcon de Reya's handy rundown of the key measures announced in the 2016 Budget. Not all of it is property-related of course, but all of it is good to know.