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The Return of the Russians: Super-prime deals soar as vendors cut prices
"The Russians are back" in London and there's some "serious interest" from mainland Chinese buyers says Knight Frank, as it reports a 92% increase in the number of super-prime £10m+ deals compared to …
110,000 ‘mansions’ would be caught in Labour’s proposed levy
110,000 homeowners - 86,000 of them in London - would have to pay Labour's mansion tax, says Zoopla.
Agents’ Mutual may have short-term impact on membership numbers – Zoopla
Zoopla has announced record levels of traffic and squarely addressed the threat of Agents' Mutual in an intriguing set of results.
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Midtown sales spike as buyers look beyond London’s golden postcodes
CBRE has reported 60% spike in sales in Q3 this year compared to last in Midtown - twixt Mayfair and the City - as buyers look beyond Mayfair and Knightsbridge
Only 24% of vendors visit an agent’s offices before getting a valuation
Some interesting - if unsurprising - insights into how homeowners source and sell properties from Peter Knight's Property Academy / 4i newsletter...
Resi developer nails £57m Battersea acquisition
Fifth Capital London has reportedly landed a two-acre swathe of Battersea with designs on a £200m resi scheme.
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Cooking Apple: New York super-prime sales up 120%
As median home prices across the US finally return to the kind of levels last seen in 2004, sales of New York's multimillion dollar resi properties have rocketed. In
Galliard and Cain Hoy’s £1bn JV creates London’s biggest house builder
An agreement between privately-owned developer Galliard Homes and new US private investment firm Cain Hoy Enterprises is set to create London's largest house builder, with a £3.4bn portfolio.
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BIID moves East
The British Institute of Interior Design (BIID) has moved its main office from the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour to Bonhill Street, between Clerkenwell and Shoreditch
Former Foster + Partners chief reveals next move
One of the biggest names in architecture, former Foster + Partners Chief Exec Mouzhan Majidi, has announced his next move after a 'shock' departure from the practice back in February.
Homeowner positivity chills out
Homeowners still tend to think that the value of their property is on the up, although "there is a clear shift towards a more moderate view of current and future price growth potential," says Knight Frank
Chelsea Crossrail station ‘still on track’ as safeguarding plans updated
It looks like the King's Road option, rather than the World's End, is the front-runner for the location of a new Crossrail 2 station in Chelsea