Miscellanea
A Room of One’s Own: Virginia Woolf’s Richmond townhouse seeks a new owner
The influential Hogarth Press was founded from the dining room table at Hogarth House on Paradise Road in South West London.
In Pictures: Athens’ €8bn seaside regeneration project comes to life
Lamda Development's six million square metre urban regeneration project in Greece, The Ellinikon, promises to become "a new blueprint of modern city living", delivering 10,000 new homes, a new marina…
First Look: Inside One Wall Street, the biggest resi renovation in New York City history
The first show residences have been unveiled at One Wall Street, Macklowe Properties’ reinvention of a 1930s landmark in Downtown Manhattan, which promises to ‘set a benchmark for luxury living’.
Talking Heads: How fast will the property market slow?
"There is no doubt that there is a cool breeze blowing in the London market,” says Roarie Scarisbrick of buying agency Property Vision - but the consensus amongst 21 prime property pundits canvassed…
Mapped: Areas with the highest (& lowest) daily property price growth since the start of the pandemic
Zoopla estimates that the average UK home has seen its value climb by £48 every day since March 2020 - but some areas have seen significantly higher growth of up £106, while the value of many London…
Contemporary reinvention of a period farmyard creates ‘a house of rare distinction’ in Hampshire
In Pictures: A listed 17th-century farmhouse has been joined to an 18th-century threshing barn via a contemporary "architectural intervention" in Hampshire's South Downs, creating an "entirely unique"…
Valuation Viewpoint: Eating Cardboard
The signs all point to hard times around the corner, says James Wyatt, although London should maintain its ‘safe haven’ status.
London’s luxury property boom continues as super-prime deals hit £1bn in 2022 so far
61 exchanges went through above the £10mn mark from January to the end of last month, the highest H1 total in over a decade.
£10mn price tag for Thomas Cubitt’s family mansion in Pimlico
Agents say Warwick Lodge is ‘one of the most important houses to come onto the market in the local area for some years’.
Estate agency plants mangrove forest
Hamptons is planting a mangrove tree for every new sale or rental instruction secured in June.
Ombudsman expels six agents
All had failed to pay a compensatory award, said the redress scheme.
Top London architecture studio enters the metaverse, launching 5,000 virtual building NFTs
PLP Architecture is creating 5,000 Non-Fungible Tokens based around a virtual concept building, in an effort to "investigate where they can add value and cross over the digital boundary".