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French ski resorts get back on piste
Property prices have stabilised in the top ski resorts of France, after registering a -4.4% fall last year.
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Gone In 6.5 Hours: Is this the fastest exchange of 2015 so far?
Prime central London has been a sticky old wicket for a while now, but here's proof there's still a few motivated buyers out there; one agency has just reported exchanging on a Knightsbridge townhouse in…
Developer pitches Camberwell as ‘the new Chelsea’
A Singapore-based developer is pitching Camberwell as "the new Chelsea" to potential buyers of its latest scheme
Oakmayne unveils new Fitzrovia scheme
Oakmayne Bespoke has pulled the curtains back on its latest project, an eight-unit office-to-resi conversion in artsy Fitzrovia
Top Shoppers: The big spenders linking London’s luxury retail and resi markets
New research has looked into the correlation between luxury retail and property sales in London, and it turns out they're pretty closely linked.
Chinese super-rich investor visas plummet 91%
As the financial ferment continues in China, it looks like the number of super-rich Chinese investors bringing their cash into the UK has fallen off a cliff.
Prime outer London slows as buyers stay cautious
Price growth in the outer prime areas of the capital fell to 3% in August as a number of macro factors put the willies up potential purchasers
Mapped: The new £1m+ areas of London
The list of £1m+ neighbourhoods in the capital just got longer.
Knight Frank has mapped the markets where at least 20% of sales have been above £1m in at least one quarter since the start of 2014. The
One Hyde Park vendor offers £9m stamp duty sweetener
The owner of the most expensive flat on the open market, Apartment C.08.1 in One Hyde Park, has offered to cover the mammoth £9m stamp duty bill staring down potential buyers.
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Year of the Dragon: Hong Kong developer bags green light for £8.4bn Greenwich scheme
Hong Kong mega-developer Knight Dragon has been given the go ahead for its ambitious Greenwich Peninsula masterplan, delivering 15,720 new homes and a whole new district twice the size of Soho.
VanHan optimistic on PCL sales market
Thomas van Straubenzee and Rory Penn's boutique agency VanHan is expecting the market to pick up in prime central London over the next three months, and has tipped Mayfair as the hotspot to watch.
As a cooling measure, stamp duty reform has succeeded – Knight Frank
"As a cooling measure, December’s stamp duty rise for high-value property has succeeded", says Knight Frank in its latest prime London round-up.