Miscellanea
All We Want For Christmas: Deconstructing the perfect festive house
Everyone has their own idea of what makes the ideal Christmas pad, but in our book you need an impressive hallway for receiving guests, a proper cook's kitchen, a bar serving top-notch tipples, an epic d…
Crown Estate slams £800m of empty homes ‘myth’
The Crown Estate has come out swinging against recent reports that it's sitting on £800m of vacant London sites.
Top Champagne house makes a splash in Kent
The Garden of England could be about to cultivate a reputation as a top wine-producing region after being chosen as the ideal terroir for Champagne Taittinger's debut UK venture.
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Agency predicts top ten buyer ‘must haves’ for 2016
Buying agency Stacks has been brainstorming the features it expects buyers to be putting at the top of their search briefs next year.
The Waitrose Effect: ‘Exciting times’ for Nine Elms as UK’s first sushi supermarket opens at Embassy Gardens
After stunning the capital with plans for the world's first "Sky Pool", Ballymore has pulled another rabbit out of the proverbial hat at Embassy Gardens - a giant Waitrose serving fresh sushi.
Prime Recce: Discerning the three districts of St John’s Wood
Outdoing all other areas of prime central London over the last 12 months with a 2.6% increase in sales values, a 14.1% rise in rental values and average gross yields of 3.85
A November Tale: The parable of the illicit swimming pool
With another Fireworks Night almost upon us, Trevor Abrahmsohn regales us with an explosive cautionary tale from the mean streets of Hampstead Garden Suburb...
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Practical Makes Perfect: The rise of property management
What do you do if your pool springs a leak in the middle of the night? Or if your tenant doesn’t understand the latest tablet controlled lighting? Wealthy homeowners are increasingly turning to property m…
Crossrail 2 consultation opens with new plans for King’s Road station
The big consultation into Crossrail 2 - the proposed Chelsea to Hackney line with King's Road station - is now open, and will run until 8th January 2016.
TfL to release 300 acres across London to build 10,000 new homes
Transport for London has announced that it will release more than 300 acres of land - two-thirds of which is in Zones 1 and 2 - to help create more than 10,000 new homes across London.
City of London embarks on biggest house-building programme since the Barbican
The City of London Corporation, local authority for the Square Mile, has decided to build 3,700 new homes by 2025, in what will be the biggest house-building programme since the completion of the Barbican …
The Flying Solution: When buying agents take to the skies
How do you show an important client around all the properties on their shortlist, whilst battling with 50,000 festival revellers? Sometimes the only way is up, finds top buying agent Bobby Hall...
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