Format: News

Recent government tinkering will have the effect of actually slowing new development in central London, according to new predictions from JLL.

Three key members of Strutt & Parker's acquisitions arm Private Property Search have left the fold to set up their own buying consultancy. Hugh Dixon, Deborah Walker & James Geddes

Set up in 1963 by young architecture grads Su Brumwell, Wendy Cheesman, Norman Foster and Richard Rogers, the legendary Team 4 practice would see its members go on to become bona fide world-beaters.

Galliard's £750m resi development on the site of William Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch - The Stage - has opened with a pretty rapturous first night performance, with £60m-worth of flats…

12-branch London estate agency Portico - which started out life as Edmund Cude in 1818 and rebranded last year - is offering a fixed fee promotion for properties it values at over £1m.

Keller Williams UK, part of the US-based estate agency franchise megalith, has brought in a new face to its Mayfair hub to drive recruitment of more London agents.

Oakhill Residential, the agency set up by former Goldschmidt & Howland man Lee Cash, has put down roots in West Hampstead.

Hamptons International has appointed Boutaina Cansicka as its new Central London Regional Lettings Director.

One of Knight Frank's top fee earners is returning to Devon to lead the firm's Exeter operation. A key member of the agency's acquisition arm, The Buying Solution, will also be joining the team.

We didn't know there was an artists' quarter in St John's Wood, but apparently this was the place to be if you were a (successful) 19th century creative.

A 'sense of impetus' was noted in the prime central London market last month, with the first rise in transaction volumes recorded this year.

The scheme, which aims to spread the cost of flood damage by imposing a £180m levy on the insurance industry, is now accepting policies from insurers.