Miscellanea
Does adding space always add value to a home?
Research by Hamptons has found that 28% of homes sold in the UK had been extended by their owners, rising to more than a one in three in London.
Knight Frank recruits new Richmond lettings boss from Chestertons
Camillo Degregorio has spent the last twelve years specialising in the SW London market.
Under 4% of UK homes signed up to fraud alert service
New figures show a threefold increase in the number of property owners signing up for HM Land Registry’s Property Alert Service - which flags up suspicious activity - but overall take-up remains very…
In Pictures: Inside David Gilmour & Polly Samson’s ‘exquisite seaside palace’, on the market for £15mn
The Pink Floyd guitarist and vocalist & his novelist wife are selling up in East Sussex.
In Pictures: New boutique scheme unveiled in Kensington, with show flats designed by Finchatton & Matthews Rea
Developer Kolan has reworked a site on St Mary Abbott’s Place near Holland Park into five high-spec apartments.
Inside Ballymore’s East London ‘contemporary exploration of the classic London townhouse’
In Pictures: Ballymore is launching a collection of 13 townhouses at its Goodluck Hope development, which occupies the former East India Company docks site next to the river Thames.
Abrahmsohn: Why the UK housing market is a hot and hideous mess
There must be another way to derive revenue from the property market without these penal transaction taxes, says veteran agent Trevor Abrahmsohn.
Mayfair, Marylebone & Fitzrovia under threat from developer ‘free-for-all’, warns council
Westminster says planning deregulation will have a ‘devastating effect’ on the West End.
‘One of the finest houses and plots to grace the banks of the River Thames’
Edwardian riverside mansion with 100-foot private mooring in West London asks £10mn.
Cadogan teams up with Museum of Architecture to launch a nature-inspired art trail in Chelsea
Five architecture teams have designed 20 "micro-home" art installations that showcase biomimicry, as part of Cadogan's "Nature's Architects" event in Chelsea.
Electricity grid capacity could thwart housebuilding in West London ‘until 2035’
Property developers in three London boroughs have been warned large resi schemes may be put on hold for ten years or more...
In Pictures: GII teams up with Marriott to launch The Lucan in Chelsea
The transformation of the old Chelsea Police Station by Gulf Islamic Investments is Marriott's first Autograph Collection Residence, creating 31 apartments managed by the luxury hotelier.