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The Tower and the Glory: How skyscraper living became the height of style
Luxury residential towers are the height of fashion around the world, says property marketing firm Lawrie Cornish as it explores escalating development trends in London, New York, Dubai and Warsaw.
Buying In A New Era: How stamp duty is fundamentally changing the prime resi landscape
Unlike prices, transaction volumes in the UK's prime markets have not rebounded since the dark days of the Financial Crisis
Have boffins worked out how to predict the next up-and-coming neighbourhood?
Forget skips and Starbucks' - researchers from Cambridge, Birmingham, Queen Mary and UCL have put forward some compelling ideas on how location-based social networks could foretell the gentrification o…
Rubies & Rusticarians: The five tribes revolutionising English village life
"The 21st-century village is not the quaint place of yesterday" says Strutt & Parker, as it analyses the evolution of the English idyll from twee Cranford to a dynamic mini-hub populated by Rusticarians, …
Mayfair’s Original Village: Exploring the charms and values of Shepherd Market
Mayfair's "original village" - a former red light district that's now home to probably London's most exclusive private members' club, 5 Hertford Street - Shepherd Market is still a refreshing enclave o…
Referendumbed Down: What would a Brexit mean for the prime resi sector?
It’s a rare event that commands such raging ambivalence.
Why the Panama Papers’ legacy of tax avoidance began with Blair & Brown
Morality aside, who can blame the world's super-rich from heading to London and taking advantage of legal tax efficiencies, asks William Cash
INTERVIEW: Alex de Blonay of Pure DNA on building luxury property brands
Former Head of Branding at Candy & Candy talks to PrimeResi about what makes a great premium brand
Exploring the evergreen appeal of Capability Brown’s grand landscape designs
300 years after his birth, the influence of the great landscape gardener Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown is still very apparent — and growing — in contemporary garden design. Savill
Behind the Schemes: Creating two brand new penthouses in Knightsbridge
'Getting the most out of an existing building is an increasing focus for owners and developers and extending into the air rights above a property is a strategy more and more are pursuing'
#Budget2016: The prime property industry reacts
"Meh" pretty much sums up a lot of reactions to Chancellor George's eighth Budget speech
Case Study: Turning a Notting Hill ‘housette’ into a Tardis
Soho-based development firm Landmass talks us through the remarkable transformation of a 622 square foot 'chocolate box' into a 3,280 square foot, five-storey residence valued at £6.95m. Just