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Ranked: The top second home locations for wellness in 2022
Savills names the Côte d’Azur and Bali among the ultimate second home destinations worldwide, as post-pandemic buyers increasingly prioritise wellness and accessibility.
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.