The Market
Poacher Turned Gamekeeper & Poacher: Drawing the buying agency boundaries
Should buying agents also be selling properties for their clients? Camilla Dell takes on a piping hot potato...
UK’s Eastern Region is fastest growing market outside London – Bidwells
The UK's Eastern Region looks to be in bullish form after a marked increase in planning applications, new developments, transaction volumes, town and country house prices and mortgage approvals.
Trend-bucking Fulham sees house sales leap
Rather than settling dust, one particular area of south west London is witnessing a dramatic sales trend in the wake of the government's new SDLT measures.
HS2: Majority of compensation applications “turned down”
299 of the 455 applications made by homeowners living in the shadow of HS2's first stage have been rejected, according to reports today.
Fortress Central London: The buy-to-bubble-wrap ghost town
In his first column for PrimeResi, Ed Mead talks ska music, buy-to-bubble-wrap and flunking the milk and newspaper test...
Flirting vendors but little action – D&G
Potential vendors are flirting with selling their properties, but supply levels still haven't risen to meet some pretty consistently strong demand in Douglas & Gordon's reckoning.
Off-Plan: Only 15% of respondents supported extended permitted development rights
Only 15% of respondents to the Government's consultation supported new permitted development rights that double the size of extensions allowed without the need for planning permission, according to results…
The Westminster Constitution: The Hyde Park Estate
Making sense of Westminster's mercurial micro-markets, Martin Bikhit analyses the fortunes of Tony Blair's illustrious stomping ground - the Hyde Park Estate and Connaught Village...
“One Stop Shop” for infrastructure planning opens for business
A new "one-stop-shop service for planning consents" will, according to Whitehall, make major infrastructure projects easier to get off the ground by reducing the number of bodies developers need to consult…
Letting Agents: Lackeys of the State?
A £10,000 fine if immigration details are wrong? For Pete's sake, give letting agents a break says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
The ramifications of the immigration problem facing the UK are horrendous.
New immigration laws to tackle “beds in sheds”
"Tough" measures that will see lettings agents take a front-line role in tackling immigration, announced in yesterday’s (8 May 2013) Queen’s Speech, have not gone down well in the industry (read what…
Office Politics: Most of central London exempt from new permitted development rights
Areas in seventeen local authorities - including vast swathes of central London - have been exempted from new rights that make it easier to convert offices into resi, due to "exceptional economic circumstances".