The Market

The Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea has appointed a new Executive Director for Planning and Borough Development to replace the outgoing Jonathan Bore.

NW8-based boutique agency Rescorp Residential has netted a £5,000 psf sale on South Audley Street W1, and predicts that Mayfair prices will breach £6,000 psf by the end of the year as Indian investors move…

One in five new tenancies in prime central London is being let with six-to-12 months' rent - typically around the £200,000 mark (including deposit but excluding letting agent's fees) - being paid up-front,…

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The former offices of the trade union Unite in West London are to be turned into luxury flats.

Those able to move quickly may get a property that will look very good value in just a few months, says buying agent Nathalie Hirst...

"The medium term outlook for the prime markets beyond London is much brighter than current market conditions would indicate," says Savills' Lucian Cook, regardless of whether a mansion tax is brought in…

Britain's £1m+ market has tripled over the last ten years, notes Sophie Chick, with 18,000 seven-figure sales worth a total of £44bn going through in 2014. The £1m+ landscape

Adam & Eve Mews, Kensington £4.7m A rather unusual proposition has just come up on this cracking little mews just off High Street Kensington.

The number of £1m+ property sales has fallen by 4% compared to the same time last year - significantly less than the 11% drop in overall transactions - while average house prices have risen by 6.

The latest version of the Town and Country Planning Order includes a notable omission: The anticipated three-year extension to Permitted Development Rights which allow the conversion of office space into…

Prime London property prices dropped in a touch in the first three months of 2015 , says Savills, continuing an adjustment that saw prices fall by 2.