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Making a Mint: Property investment lessons from the Crown Estate
What can property investors learn from the Crown Estate's remarkable success, asks Nicky Richmond...
Root & Branch: Why the UK’s outdated property tax system needs a serious overhaul
Stamp duty is now at a level that jeopardises the economic viability of a property purchase; a sliding scale would make far more sense, says David Hannah...
Trumping the Gazumpers: How to avoid getting burned as the market heats up
Buyers will need to have their wits about them as gazumping returns with a vengeance, says Camilla Dell...
On The Edge of Glory: Tyburnia’s developing story
Nestled in between Notting Hill, Marylebone and Mayfair, canny buyers are waking up to the riches that lie within Tyburnia (the area formally known as "around Bayswater", but brilliantly and almost single-handedly…
Who says UK Property PLC is out of the woods?
For London's estate agents, the consequences of all this housing market hype are potentially devastating, says Ed Mead...
It must be the silly season
The Ambassadors’ Reception Rooms: London’s most diplomatic property developments
London's diplomatic map is being redrawn, really spoiling property developers with a glut of ambassadorial opportunities in Mayfair, Marylebone, Westminster, Kensington and Holland Park, according to …
Here’s Looking at You: The value of putting a face on it
It's the latest thing: Billboard-height mugshots of estate agents are cropping up all over London and photos of local sales managers are dropping through letterboxes like pizza menus, as agencies compete…
City Limits: What sort of London are we building?
Free the leviathan of residential construction from the callous shackles of planning control, says Edward Keene..
New-Build Me Up: Ten top tips for buying off-plan
Buying off-plan has come a very long way since the days of crossed fingers and sums on the back of a ciggy packet, but it can still feel like taking a punt
Comedy of Manors: Why William Cash is banning the WI
Opening a historic home to the public is no tea party, discovers William Cash as he gets into hot water with the W.I. during a Wodehouse-worthy episode at Upton Cressett.
House Tales: Holdenby House, Northamptonshire
Whatever became of this extraordinary palace, once hailed as the country's largest private house? The National Archives' Nicholas Kingsley investigates..
Right to Supply: Why Help to Buy isn’t the answer
The Help to Buy Scheme may be a brave effort, says Trevor Abrahmsohn, but the Government needs to deal with the banks and the planners if it really wants to provoke a healthier property market...