Miscellanea
‘These houses cost an arm, leg & lung’: Air pollution tool encourages London house-hunters to cut property prices
Londoners are being urged to use air pollution data to drive down house prices and rents; "this is going to be industry standard", says the NAEA's chief
Property market stalls on Friday 13th as homebuyers get the heebie jeebies
Completions typically tank by 40% whenever the dreaded date comes round, according to new analysis of Land Registry data
In Pictures: Property developer hosts major Dali art exhibition at London office
Sobha Realty has assembled a multi-million pound collection of works by Salvador Dali to exhibit at its Park Lane office
‘Land & property are under-taxed’: Influential think tank calls for ‘fundamental’ economic reforms
"Fundamental reform has happened twice before in the last century following periods of crisis," says the IPPR in a major new report "– with the Attlee government’s Keynesian reforms in the 1940s and…
RIBA launches weekly ‘live magazine’ at 66 Portland Place
Held at the Institute's iconic Art Deco HQ each Wednesday evening, The Architects Underground is aimed at 'everyone who has a love of, an interest in or an opinion on architecture and design'
Spectator competition winners: If Shakespeare had been an estate agent
How would The Bard have sold a house? Would Hemingway, Thoreau or Pinter have been able to stir up interest with syntax alone?
HS2 has spent more than £1.25bn buying London properties
The North-South high-speed rail project has spent "at least" £1,256,089,849 on London property acquisitions, according to a freedom of information request
Friday Showcase: Ten featured prime resi listings
A weekly stock check, powered by LonRes
Ignore liveable cities rankings – they do citizens a disservice by trying to quantify urban life
Ranking different cities against each other according to specific criteria destroys the essence of that city as a whole, argues Oli Mould
FT – Millennial movers: how young tech tycoons are shaking up the prime housing market
Buyers flush with tech fortunes are changing the face of high-end property, writes Judith Evans in the Financial Times
Bogus billionaire infiltrates London’s super-prime market
Artist and writer gained access to some of the most coveted addresses in the capital as part of a 'longitudinal study' into the high-end real estate sector for a socialist newspaper...
Energy efficiency charges up home-owners’ priorities
As the Government consults on mandatory EV chargepoints for new-build homes, Jackson-Stops asks home-owners about their energy priorities