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Online-only agents increase market share – TwentyCi
Exchanges up 11% in Q1, according to consumer intelligence firm...
Fewer home-owners are improving their properties in London’s prime boroughs
RBKC and Westminster buck the national trend for more home improvement, according to research by Barbour ABI
Accountant turned property developer sentenced over £260k VAT fraud
Developer exaggerated his expenditure on a residential renovation project in Spitalfields - and got caught by HMRC
Rare freehold Mayfair development opp with approved planning offered for £15m
The site, in a gated mews near Claridge's, has consented planning permission for a boutique new-build ten-unit resi development
JLL reports City sales surge as pied-à-terre market returns
Agency notes 50% jump in deals across Bank, Aldwych, Southwark and Bloomsbury, with one- and two-bed new-builds currently flavour of the month...
Britain’s incredible shrinking homes
Study of 10,000 houses built during each of the last eight decades finds the average living room is nearly a third smaller than it was in the 1970s...
Danish billionaires swoop on London property
Two major investors from Denmark are making significant plays in London's property investment scene
Londoners paid four times more stamp duty than the national average last year
The most expensive 10% of properties contributed around 60% of all Stamp Duty receipts last year, reports LCP
SMEs hold the key for upbeat bridging lenders
Over three-quarters of Association of Short Term Lenders members expecting a turnover boost in Q2
Government makes a major move to ‘professionalise’ the estate agency industry
Sajid Javid announces a plan to introduce mandatory qualifications for estate agents, bringing the profession in line with conveyancers, solicitors and surveyors
Rental demand surges in prime London as supply drops, but prices hold for now
Foxtons, Knight Frank and LonRes have all recorded significant rises in tenant demand at the same time as a notable reduction in new rental listings...
Octagon & Criterion team up to transform ‘one of London’s few and finest Jacobean manor houses’
Grade II* listed mansion in Wimbledon Village was originally commissioned in the early 1600s by Robert Bell, co-founder of the East India Company...