Format: News
Super-prime lettings deals double
            New figures have shown a massive rise in the number of lettings deals on properties worth £10m or more.
        
    The ‘last castle in Scotland’ returns to the market
            Not for the faint of heart, a magnificent Highlands manse thought to be the last castle built in Scotland has come back on to the market after an abortive attempt to turn it into a luxury hotel.
        
    LCP brings in Triangle chief to bolster board
            Investment firm London Central Portfolio has brought in a new face to its holding company's Board of Directors.
        
    House prices have risen by 1,751% since the last European Referendum
            Residential property prices in Britain have gone up a bit since we last voted on the European question back in 1975.        
    Ten-bed Phillimore mansion up for £36m
            One of the biggest open-market instructions of the year has launched on Kensington's ultra-prime Upper Phillimore Gardens.
        
    Planning nod for mass roof extension scheme in Ladbroke Grove
            Eighteen residents of Ruston Mews in W11 have been given the go-ahead to carry out a joint roof extension after winning an appeal.
        
    Solicitors found liable in £500k property fraud case
            A highly significant - and frankly terrifying - case has just been decided in the High Court, leaving some conveyancing solicitors liable for a half-a-million pound property scam.
        
    The Quiet After the Storm: A ‘noticeable softening in near term sales expectations’ – RICS
            There's been a "noticeable softening in near term sales expectations", says the RICS, as the new second homes SDLT surcharge puts paid to the Winter's buy-to-let rush, and uncertainty driven by the EU…        
    First Look: Gehry-designed show apartment opens at Battersea Power Station
            The first Gehry Partners-designed apartment at Battersea Power Station has been unveiled.
        
    Cushman’s Head of Resi takes the Residential Development Agent’s Society chair
            Cushman & Wakefield’s Head of Residential, Candice Matthews, has been elected as chair of the Residential Development Agent’s Society (RDAS). 
RDAS was started in 1995, and now has around 410 members.        
    U+I creates Executive Committee to drive ‘continued evolution’
            Six months after Development Securities and Cathedral Group completed their union under the new U+I Plc banner, the property regeneration firm has formed an Executive Committee - ExCo - to push the business's…        
    Octopus launches new peer-to-peer lending platform
            Octopus Investments - the firm behind Dragonfly Property Finance, Property Partner, and which back Zoopla - is rolling out a new breed of peer-to-peer lending platform aimed at financial advisors.