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Russian real estate buyers rein in their overseas spending
The amount spent by individual Russian buyers on overseas property investments has reached its lowest point since the Central Bank of the Russian Federation started keeping track.
Grade I Berkshire mansion up for auction at knockdown price
An important country house in Berkshire is due to go under the hammer next month, with a guide price that's less than half the amount it was being offered at on the open market last year.
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Billionaires’ Row demolition job asks £10m
A £10m mansion on The Bishops Avenue has come up for sale with possible scope to knock it down and build something nearly four times bigger.
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Cadogan still confident on resi prospects after profit dip
The Cadogan Estate has reported a big boost in the value of its assets, but a fall in pre-tax profit.
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2016: The story of the prime London market so far
PCL search agency Turnbull Property has neatly summed up a rocky few months in the prime London market.
Khan slams BoJo’s ‘toothless’ Concordat
London's new mayor has laid into his predecessor's efforts at preventing the capital's homes from being snapped up by foreign investors, dismissing BoJo's flagship initiative as "embarrassing" and a "c…
Buy-to-let sector a ‘ticking timebomb’ as major sell-off predicted for 2018/2019
Former financier and Maskells chief Charles Curran has analysed the likely effects of recent policy and regulatory changes combining with mortgage lending and tax issues, and concluded that many landlords …
Top property developer pens open later urging Remain
The bosses of London's biggest housebuilder, Galliard Homes, have written an open letter to the business's entire address book urging voters - in the politest possible way - to go Remain in tomorrow's E…
‘Capital gains and rental values’ driving London’s Middle Eastern buyers
Cluttons and YouGov's latest survey of Middle Eastern investors has revealed some interesting findings on HNW buyer behaviour.
Mayfield gets go-ahead for luxury hotel-to-resi scheme in Bayswater
A transformation of the former Westland Hotel in Bayswater has been given the green light by Westminster.
Top-end developer Mayfield bought the prominent 0.3
Housing Hotspots: Where are two-thirds of properties on the market already under offer?
Economic catastrophising and European angst are no match for the basic laws of supply and demand, says Jackson-Stops & Staff, as the estate agency tells us that buyers are still snapping up properties a…
Transaction uptick ‘shows a market finding its more natural level again’
The seasonally-adjusted UK resi property transaction count for May has come in at 89,700. That's up 1.5% on April, but 11.9% lower than in May 2015.
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