Sales
Soho Works Estate comes up for sale
The Soho Works Estate, a half-acre site fronting both Great Marlborough Street and Poland Street, has just been listed for sale with a £67.5m price tag.
Knight Frank opens up in Barnes
Knight Frank has just opened the doors to its new office on Barnes High Street, SW London.
Strong start for Derwent’s Art Deco cinema conversion
Derwent London's redevelopment of a former cinema on Queensway has got off to a flyer, with 50% of the units selling within the first two weeks of launch.
Vendor sweetens penthouse deal with free Lamborghini
The vendor of a $38m Las Vegas penthouse is hoping to pique the interest of high-rolling buyers by throwing in a $250k Lamborghini hyper-car to sweeten the deal.
New-build market above £1m to suffer in 2015 as supply increases – Hurford Salvi Carr
City/Docklands/Midtown-based agency Hurford Salvi Carr has been totting up the price movements across its patch during 2014, and come up with an average increase of 4% on the sales side.
‘Mini-boom hits a pause’ as asking prices fall – Rightmove
Asking prices have dropped by 1.7% in the last month, says Rightmove, as the traditional winter slowdown kicks in.
This year has seen prices of new instructions hitting the portal rise by 8.
Abrahmsohn on the year that was (and the ‘black cloud’ hanging over 2015)
Glentree boss Trevor Abrahmsohn makes sense of a rollercoaster year in the prime property market, and reveals his much-anticipated predictions for 2015...
This year has been divided into a number of segments.
Demand slips for fourth month in a row – RICS
House price growth is back to its May 2013 level, says the RICS, as new buyer demand continued to drop in October.
‘Something of a stalemate’ despite supply hitting a three-year high – D&G
"Politics hasn't completely stymied the market" says Douglas & Gordon, as the agency notches up a 100% increase in new business from August to October.
Who’s just bought New Scotland Yard?
It sounds like JLL has done a sterling job of shifting New Scotland Yard in double-quick time, and there's already been plenty of speculation as to the identity of the £250m site's 'mystery buyer'...
FORECAST: UK Prime Regional Towns +4% to +7% next year; PCL -2% to +1% – Carter Jonas
Forecast season started early this year. So much so that it still feels a bit too soon for mince pies, yet we've already had 2015 predictions from all these firms.
Swift realism strikes PCL as market braces for property-centric general election – W.A.Ellis
W.A.Ellis - or if we're being formal, W.A.Ellis, a JLL company - has summed up the current PCL conditions rather eloquently in its latest market update.