Miscellanea
On the Science of Place: Ten steps for successful placemaking (and why St James’s Square is officially London’s most beautiful address)
'Groundbreaking' study by Cadogan & Create Streets looks into what really makes a place tick, providing ten key steps for developers, architects, planning authorities and landowners to follow, and explaining…
Just six Local Authorities have moved land searches online
The Land Registry has been making strides along its "digital street" programme for some time, and this week marks a full year since the online Local Land Charges Register first went live.
‘We Are Hampstead!’: North London residents up in arms over boundary redraw
Proposals to reclassify a number of streets in the Hampstead Town ward as Gospel Oak have not gone down well in NW3...
Greedy fingers are wanting too big a slice of the property pie
Seasoned buying agent Simon Barnes reports on a worrying trend in the PCL market...
British Housing Ministers, ranked by their track record of delivering new homes
There have been 17 different Housing Ministers in the last 20 years, but who delivered the most new homes?
In Pictures: On-site at the restoration of one of London’s great private houses
Aerial shots show how the derelict Athlone House in Highgate is being returned to its former glory via an epic programme of works, involving a lot of scaffolding...
New York is billionaires’ favourite city
The Big Apple is home to 85 billionaires, say Savills and Forbes. Singapore, in second place, has 79 resident billionaires, while Moscow, Beijing and London have 71, 61 and 55 respectively
World’s wealthiest take a financial hit, ending seven years of growth
The world's wealthiest individuals lost 3% of their combined net worth in 2018; Britain's HNW set lost 6%
In Pictures: The 2019 HQR Summer Ball
Prime resi construction firms raise £110k for worthy causes as 650 guests descend on Park Lane for the annual charity bash
Events company scouts for empty development properties to put to ‘worthwhile use’
Shout About has signed up six London townhouses - part of the One Crown Place scheme in EC2 - to use for 'worthwhile' events
Cadogan & RBKC unveil £40m plan to revamp Sloane Street
John McAslan + Partners commissioned to redesign one of PCL's most famous thoroughfares as an 'elegant green boulevard', with planting by Chelsea Flower Show winner Andy Sturgeon
Climate Change: Real estate worth billions could become obsolete – unless owners act now
Academics weigh-in on the costs for property owners of not acting now on energy efficiency