Sales
‘Strongest market conditions since before the financial crisis’ drive ‘unprecedented demand’ for KFH
Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward enjoyed 26% more new instruction in March than in the same month last year, as the the firm basked in "the strongest market conditions since before the financial crisis."
Sales rise but new stock drops for fourth month in a row
The latest numbers from the RICS show that demand continued to grow in April, with the number of homes sold per chartered surveyor hitting its highest level since February 2008, while the supply of new…
Battersea Power Station mania continues
With the last of Elton John's chords still ringing out, it's been revealed that 95% of the latest phase of units released at Battersea Power Station have already been snapped up in an "unprecedented"…
New Kensington scheme for Northacre
Northacre has followed up contract wins on Thurloe Square and Palace Street by bagging a new project on leafy Vicarage Gate in W8.
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Domestic buyers return to PCL
There's been a 'resurgence of domestic activity' in prime central London, says CBRE, as homegrown buyers accounted for 55% of sales in the area in 2013.
Earl-y success for Capco as over 200 Lillie Square flats go in a jiffy
Capco has revealed it has already shifted 204 of the 237 flats in Phase One of its new Lillie Square scheme, with some buyers coughing up well over £1,800 psf for the 'standard' units.
Stock & Shares: Gauging London’s shifting supply levels
A 43% increase in Chelsea, but a 6% drop in South Ken? As Lonres releases its Spring Review, the research team explains what's really going on with those supply levels in central London...
World’s most expensive flat sells – shell & core – in London
Penthouse D in Candy & Candy's One Hyde Park development has just been snapped up for a rumoured £140m
Q1 sales boom for Ladbroke Grove, Westbourne Grove and Bayswater
W11-based outfit Crayson has also been totting up the scores from Q1 and reckons ppsf values achieved so far in 2014 across its enviable K&C patch are 14.3% above where they were a year ago.
Top three risks to the central London property market: Mansion Tax, interest rate rises & over-inflated prices
The results of the Lonres Spring Agents Survey are in, and they're probably best described as "mixed". There's lots to digest as usual, so let's get amongst it.
‘Exceptional’ Q1 for PCL’s £2m+ sales market
834 homes were sold in prime central London in Q1, according to Strutt & Parker. That's an 8.3% increase on the quarterly average for the last ten years.
Historic number and values of sales in PCL
Spring market in full bloom, but transactions still 35% lower than ‘normal’
The property market is at the vanguard of the UK's wider economic recovery, says Carter Jonas in its Spring Review, with house prices and transaction numbers rising pretty much across the board in England…