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Amcorp bags Belgravia apartment block for £45m
Kilmuir House on Ebury Street is right opposite Berkeley's super-prime Ebury Square scheme
Clarity, Certainty & Predictability: A call for forward guidance on property taxes
The Treasury should take a leaf out of the Bank of England's playbook, says RICS' Jeremy Blackburn, and issue forward guidance on property tax policies.
Humberts picks eight rising stars for inaugural leadership programme
Humberts has launched an internal training academy to create the next generation of the firm’s senior leaders.
Purple Patches: CBRE tears up Lizzie Line forecasts as house prices steam ahead
Prices around Elizabeth Line (née Crossrail) stations have already smashed expectations, says CBRE, leading the firm to overhaul its original forecasts.
Caan-backed luxury developer Sons & Co in management buyout
Sons & Co, the high-end resi property developer set up by brothers Alexander and Christian Stocker, along with Simon Roberts, has gone out on its own.
Number of single-family offices ‘has doubled’ since 2008
The number of single-family offices in the UK has more than doubled since the financial crash, according to new research.
31 Years: Is this the UK’s longest-running super-prime project?
If you thought your development was dragging on a bit, take some comfort in the progress of this stately home scheme in East Sussex.
Wandsworth Council bans ‘dominating’ estate agents’ boards
Estate agents now need to apply for permission to put up advertising boards in Putney, Balham, Clapham Junction and Lavender Hill (maps of affected streets below), after the council waged war on what…
Leeming slams stamp duty surcharge; ‘the only losers will be tenants’
The incoming 3% stamp duty surcharge will fail to deter buy-to-let investors in most parts of the UK, according to one national agency, although it may succeed in making things harder for tenants.
Battersea Power Station masterplan tweak adds 400 ‘smaller, lower-priced’ homes
New proposals have gone in to switch out one of the three hotels planned at Battersea Power Station for another 400 resi units.
150-fold rise in London homes listed on AirBnB as private landlords get in on the act
London's homeowners are going nuts for AirBnB. JLL has recorded a 150-fold rise in the number of resi properties listed on the home-lettings website over the past five years.
Developer faces record fine after ‘most significant conviction for bat crime ever recorded’
A property developer has been handed down a record £10,700 fine in what's been described as "the most significant conviction for bat crime ever recorded".