The Market
Energy efficiency now a key factor influencing sale prices – DECC
The Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) has been drumming up support for its Green Deal scheme today, by claiming that making energy saving improvements to a property could increase its value…
Required Reading: How to Buy and Sell Short Leases
Short leases; big opportunity or tall order? We asked Child & Child's Katie Cohen and Mo Hakim and Prosper Marr-Johnson of Marr Johnson & Stevens to put together the definitive crib sheet...
Marcus Cooper to create £200m Regent’s Park uberpile
Property tycoon Marcus Cooper is planning to turn seven Regent's Park houses into one of the world's most expensive residences.
Ready about for Henley as deals surge 30%
With a cracking sense of timing, The Buying Solution has flagged up some exceptionally high demand in lovely Henley
Portal Kombat: Another agent-owned property portal enters the fray
Would you believe it? After all the high-fives and backslapping following the announcement of Agents Mutual, another name-pending agent-owned portal is about to strap on some gloves and enter the ring…
Abrahmsohn: Xenophobic proposals to increase housing supply are daft with a capital D
The latest idea from a Lib Dem MP - to stop developers selling homes to overseas buyers - has not gone down well with Trevor Abrahmsohn. At all.
Look North (London): Investors go North and East for property returns
Investors should be looking North and a bit East to pick up the best returns in London, according to Allen Wargent
Hammersmith & Fulham goes through the roof
Hammersmith and Fulham Council has been praised by estate agency Winkworth for creating a particularly robust property market over the last five years
Suits You: Jermyn Street resi scheme launches
The Crown Estate's right royal regeneration of St James's is picking up pace, with the launch of the area's latest luxury resi scheme on the impeccably turned-out Jermyn Street.
W.A
Mayfair top end slows but plenty of action sub £5m
It's still inexplicably absent from the Monopoly board, but that doesn't seem to have greatly affected Mayfair's resi market so far this year
Demand for London homes will outstrip supply by 48% over the next decade – Knight Frank
There's a whole lot more resi developing going on now than at any time since the crash - with 63% more resi units being granted planning permission in 2012 compared to 2011 - but there's still no chance…
Qatar Sheikh-up could cause “Marbella Effect” in prime London
Qatar's changing of the top brass - as Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, the Emir, hands over power to his son, Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim, this Summer - could cause a chunky "Marbella Effect" on the …