Sales
Millionaires’ Rows 2015: Britain’s most expensive streets, towns and areas
Kensington Palace Gardens is well ahead of the pack as always, with a current average price of £42,591,972
Sell-Out Crowd: Buyers snap up £140m worth of flats in four hours
£140m worth of apartments in a new scheme in Canary Wharf sold in the space of four hours over the weekend, with some buyers queuing for up to 36 hours to lay down their hard-earned cash.
Undercover documentary ‘a blow to public confidence in the wider property profession’ – RICS
Last week's Channel 4 documentary showing an undercover journalist attempting to buy London property with "stolen" cash was "a blow to public confidence in the wider property profession", says RICS.
Top Gun: A-list approved Knightsbridge penthouse asks £35m
One of the most expensive rental properties in the capital - a 10,000 square foot penthouse in Knightsbridge that costs a cool £40k per week to hire - is being offered up for sale with a £35m price…
Prime Property of the Week: Within Range
Grovelands, Totteridge, North London
£19.95m
A mere half an hour from the hustle and bustle of Tottenham Court Road, this remarkable private estate sits in 11.
Open Seasons: Summer property market strengthens as buyers go mobile
If your mobile site is in need of work, it might be time to call in the developers.
SE London market unaffected by summer slowdown – JLL
JLL's South East operation is apparently rattling through six sales a week at the moment, which is pretty good going for the height of summer.
Lawes
Avenue Road mansion goes for over £40m in pre-election mega-deal
One of the deals of 2015 has just come to light in St John's Wood.
According to Land Registry records, a mansion on leafy Avenue Road (not far from Lord's) went for a whopping £40.
Get Your Côte: French Riviera ‘next in line’ for ultra-prime boom
A weak euro, suppressed prices and some recent tax changes have made property on the French Riviera much more appealing to foreign purchasers of late, reports Savills.
‘Emerging Prime’ capital values to climb 10% over the next 12 months – D&G
Covering the heartlands of Battersea Park, Battersea, Balham, Clapham, East Putney, West Putney, Southfields & Earlsfield, Hammersmith, Shepherd’s Bush, Pimlico & Westminster and Fulham, the D&G Emerging…
Super-rare Eaton Square mansion goes on sale for £55m
One of only 15 houses remaining out of 118 buildings on the famous square
Infamous royal love nest up for sale in Marylebone
The love nest at the heart of one of the 20th century's most talked-about royal scandals has come up for sale, nearly 80 years after the resulting abdication crisis threatened to bring down the monarchy.