Company Tag: Savills
Shabby-to-Chic: The Doer Upper’s Kensington project, done up
It may have come in over budget and behind schedule, but it's "not to shabby, even if I do say so myself," says Alan Page with pride from his doer upper project in Kensington as the sales agents get to work.
Prime Property of the Week: The Wilton Succeed
Wilton Street, Belgravia
£14.25m
Planning nod for Ransome’s Wharf redevelopment
An application to completely redevelop Ransome's Wharf in Battersea has received the unanimous support of Wandsworth's planners.
Savills to open up in Aberdeen
Savills has announced plans to open a new office in Aberdeen's West End, offering the full gamut of resi and commercial property services.
Change at the top as Prime Purchase names new MD
Hugo Thistlethwayte will be stepping down as Managing Director of Savills' buying arm Prime Purchase, which he helped to found back in 2002, in January.
FORECAST: Mansion tax could mean a 10% fall for superprime London next year – Savills
Savills has issued forecasts for two scenarios for the prime market in 2015: one with and one without a mansion tax. It makes quite a difference...
Savills bolsters building & project consultancy team
Savills has signed up former Cluttons man Jim Wickens to join its building & project consultancy team.
Jim Wickens
Entry-level mansion-dwellers would pay £250 per month – Balls
Ed Balls has detailed just how Labour's Mansion Tax would work, should the party get lucky in May.
‘Punitive’ Scottish property tax overhaul creates ‘window of opportunity’
It looks like Scotland will get a new progressive tax regime to replace the existing SDLT structure from April next year, and the changes have created a "six month window of opportunity" at the middle…
The East leads prime London’s rental growth
London's prime rents have increased by 1.4% year-on-year, says Savills, with particularly strong demand for one- and two-bed flats driving the market in the last three months.
Cluttons pinches Savills’ Head of International Developments
Cluttons has recruited Savills' Joanna Leverett as its Head of International Residential Markets.
‘Taxation has slowed the prime market’ but country property is still ‘incredibly good value’ – Savills
The escalation of house prices in the capital's prime resi markets has continued to calm a touch over the last quarter, says Savills, "as the caution first seen in central London markets early in 2014…