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Royal Mail signs off £190m Mount Pleasant deal with Taylor Wimpey
Contracts have been exchanged for the sales of 6.25 acres of the Royal Mail's Mount Pleasant site for £193.5m
‘A warning to developers’: Planners knock back Bayswater hotel-to-resi scheme
The conversion of five grand Bayswater townhouses from a hotel into 32 apartments has been rejected by Westminster's planners, who have declared that “This decision should serve as a warning to developers…
CBRE bolsters UK planning team
Turley's Sarah Stevens joins as Senior Director
Ranked: UK postcodes with the largest average mortgage
Serene and stately, the historic London enclave of St James's is also home to the highest average resi mortgage rate in the UK, and by some distance...
‘A cut in stamp duty this autumn is highly unlikely’ – Savills
While some in the property sector are wistfully chattering about how the Chancellor might reassess stamp duty rates in his Autumn Statement, Savills is of the view that a cut "is highly unlikely unless…
Grand Registry: Surveying July’s biggest registered deals
The latest update from the Land Registry has detailed a number of tasty high-end deals from across PCL, albeit with a heavy lag...
ITV submits plans for 31-storey resi tower on the South Bank
ITV has handed in plans for the major redevelopment of its HQ site on the South Bank, which include 213 residential units in a new 31-storey tower.
Bumper crop of prime properties to go under the hammer next month
Allsop will be auctioning off a bumper crop of prime properties at its upcoming resi sale next month.
Highlights include:
Southwark housing chief to step down in December
Southwark has announced that its Director of Housing & Modernisation, Gerri Scott, is to leave the borough's employ after seven years in the job.
Major London schemes shortlisted for 2017 Carbuncle Cup
Two of central London's biggest development projects have been shortlisted for the trophy that nobody wants - the Carbuncle Cup 2017.
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Hong Kong’s CC Land eyes further UK acquisitions
The Hong Kong developer behind the blockbusting acquisitions of the "Cheesegrater" skyscraper and Nine Elms Square sounds keen to add some more UK assets to its collection.
How have prime residential yields performed in the last 12 months?
As we discovered in the recent English Housing Survey, there's been a significant and sustained shift towards renting over home-ownership, with England's Private Rented Sector doubling in size in the…