Company Tag: Knight Frank

While many of London’s top addresses (including Kensington Palace Gardens, One Hyde Park and The Lancasters) enjoy prime positions along Hyde Park’s seven-kilometre perimeter, Knight Frank has…

A prominent office block with some serious long-term resi potential has just been put up for sale in well-heeled Brook Green, West London.

Westminster Council has finally given Lodha Group its blessing to convert the Canadian High Commission in Mayfair into 41 top-end apartments.

After 40 months of on-the-trot growth, prices in prime outer London have finally seen a fall, dropping by 0.2% in October according to the latest from Knight Frank.

Global luxury property prices nudged up by just 0.2% in Q3, says Knight Frank.

That 0% prediction is coming to pass early, as Knight Frank reports no change in prime central London prices during October.

The rate of growth in residential development land values is easing up, says Knight Frank, dropping from +5.6% in Q2 to +3.7% in Q3. Development land prices rose by a paltry 0.

Knight Frank has made a bundle of promotions, bumping 34 employees up to Partner level and another 69 to the Associate rank. On the residential side of the business, 25 have been made Partners:

Luxury investments - cars, wine, art etc - have outperformed property over the last decade, and by quite the margin.

Despite dropping a touch in Q3, rental values in the Home Counties have increased on an annual basis for the first time since June 2012, says Knight Frank. It's not a big increase: 0.

Knight Frank has made a strong play on the research front, by creating the new role of Chief Economist to 'place the company at the forefront of debate on the future of global property'. James Roberts

Alexander Lewis, Residential Development Partner at Knight Frank, talks us through the six key value drivers, the PCL area he's tipping for outperformance, and why no amount of gimmicks can rescue…