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Building material costs ‘continue to rocket’
Bricks are in short supply - with some waiting times in excess of 12 months - while the price of insulation materials have escalated by 16% in the last year
Autumn restart for rejigged Chelsea Barracks project?
Construction works at the £3bn scheme are expected to crank up again later this year...
Councils are ‘sitting on’ £375m of unspent s106 payments
Affordable housing starts in London have 'miraculously' doubled, but many Council are 'sitting on' hundreds of millions of pounds paid by property developers to fund affordable homes
Trendwatch: Space for rural enterprise top of the wishlist for country buyers
Room to host festivals, rear specialist breeds or offer boutique accommodation has become the latest "must have" in the estate and farm market...
Property industry players team up with music stars to mentor London’s disadvantaged youth
Galliard, Rokstone and Saigol DDC chiefs step up (with Tinie Tempah) to help a very good cause
£13.45m unit sold at boutique new-build scheme in Kensington
Northacre's Eric Parry-designed Vicarage Gate House sits right next to Kensington Palace Gardens
Asking price reductions on a third of UK listings
Twickenham named as London's 'price-cut hotspot', with reductions made on 42% of online listings, but the overall proportion is actually down on Q4...
Five ‘under-the-radar’ hotspots for property price growth
There's still activity in prime markets around the UK, says Savills, but some local hotspots have notably out-performed the regional or national averages in the last five years...
Budget Chelsea penthouse goes up for sale with views of the Thames (and one of London’s most extraordinary mansions)
It's not often you see a top-floor riverfront apartment offered for less than £1m around here, but potential buyers should prepare for bouts of acute house envy...
Stanhope recruits Blackstone chief as Managing Director
Stuart Grant is to join Stanhope Plc as Managing Director, after 18 years with Blackstone Real Estate
‘Non-banks are the new normal’ for SME housebuilding finance
LendInvest outlines three finance-based proposals that might help smaller property developers to build more homes
Top project management firm ‘enters into a new chapter’ with a leadership refresh
Buro Four has appointed four new Directors to its leadership team, and promoted three staff to key positions