The Market
Curtain Up: £750m Shoreditch scheme to transform ‘lost’ Shakespearean site
The curtain has been raised on a showstopping £750m regeneration project in London's Shoreditch, centred around the most important Shakespeare heritage project in the UK for almost 20 years.
Mayfield appoints Squire & Partners on Chelsea police station scheme
Developer locked down the site at the southern end of Lucan Place in December
LonRes launches new Prime London Sales Index
LonRes has launched a new quarterly Prime London Sales Index, which you can expect to hear quoted all over the place from now on.
Haus hires top negotiator from Foxtons
Jamie Lester's Haus Properties has hired one of Foxtons' best sales negotiators to boost its new Fulham operation.
Over half of prime London lets agreed at below asking
The second half of 2015 saw demand fall away and longer void periods open up in the prime London lettings market, says LonRes.
Important Astell Street house asks £8.5m
A Chelsea pile with links to the early feminist movement has come up for sale at £8.5m.
‘A muted start to the year’ as prices edge up in prime central London
It's "a muted start to the year" says Knight Frank, echoing recent sentiments from LonRes, as property prices in prime central London rose by 0.1% in January, edging annual growth up to 1.2%.
Why a year of no growth would be better for the market
LonRes Chairman William Carrington cautions against the expectation of a resumption of price rises...
Agents gloomy on prime London prospects as demand wanes
The latest survey of agents by LonRes has painted a "fairly gloomy" picture of the prime London market.
Will 2016 be ‘the year of the owner-occupier’?
We're still only a month in, but Jackson-Stops & Staff has already come up with a few resi development trends for 2016. Here's a quick overview...
Developers spread their wings
London ‘remains attractive’ to investors; trophy home buyers, not so much
Despite the Chancellor’s best attempts to slow the market, demand for privately rented accommodation in the capital is holding, says Black Brick's Camilla Dell.
Turnover and sales up at Foxtons after ‘particularly encouraging’ H2
Foxtons boosted its turnover by 4% last year, despite a reported 11% drop-off in transaction levels across London.