Miscellanea
Chocolate Box Cottages Vs Manor Houses: What’s the price premium for a quintessentially English village home?
Jackson-Stops compares PSF values and sold prices for five types of chocolate box country home, from manor houses and rectories to farmhouses, barn conversions and cottages
Call Me Maybe: Why you should never leave voicemails
Forget old fashioned voice messages - today's top brokers need to employ more efficient forms of communication to get results, says Knight Frank's super-prime specialist Daniel Daggers...
Buyers splash out 80% more for a waterfront home
The highest waterfront premium is found in the South West, says Knight Frank
Avalanche of subsidence claims could put insurance firms on shaky ground
The aftermath of the long hot summer of 1976 saw a wave of subsidence claims across the UK, notes Trevor Abrahmsohn, and insurance firms may need to brace themselves as history repeats...
33 charts that show how London’s housing market is changing
The Greater London Authority's newly-published housing report analyses how the capital's housing trends have shifted through the decades, noting some fascinating changes in tenure, construction, affordability,…
Qatari Diar breaks ground at former US Embassy site
More good news for Grosvenor Square as the former fortress at No.30 begins its transformation into one of the world's top luxury hotels...
Which are the best parks in PCL?
34 parks and green spaces have been awarded Green Flag status across RBKC and Westminster this year
Insurers braced for raft of subsidence claims as Britain swelters
The Met Office measure of soil moisture deficit in the UK is currently at "high amber", which is not great news for some properties built on clay soil
New LLC register ‘will completely transform UK property transactions’
The Land Registry has officially launched its new digital Local Land Charges Register today, which is fairly big news for homebuyers and their agents.
Green light for Leo Villareal & Lifschutz Davidson Sandilands’ ‘Illuminated River Project’
An ambitious plan to liven up London's bridges has been given the go-ahead this week
A Chequers history: the country palace of British prime ministers
A Grade I listed country pile at the foot of the Chilterns has quietly hosted world leaders and momentous decisions since it was built in 1565...
In Pictures: LonRes Summer Party & Awards 2018
The who's who of London's prime property world gather in Belgravia for another sun-soaked annual bash