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General election ‘edges onto the radar’ in PCL as price growth spreads
Prices in prime central London have now risen for 42 months in a row (by o.8% in March), says Knight Frank in its latest market update, with the annual increase remaining steady at +7.
Stock & Shares: Gauging London’s shifting supply levels
A 43% increase in Chelsea, but a 6% drop in South Ken? As Lonres releases its Spring Review, the research team explains what's really going on with those supply levels in central London...
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Hamptons goes big on cab-vertising
Hamptons International has decided to head down the branded taxi route this year, wrapping more than fifty 'Sherbet Dabs' as part of its new marketing campaign.
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26 promotions at Carter Jonas (including five new Group Partners)
What a week for Carter Jonas.
Fund opens London super-prime property to SIPP investors
Luxury developer Fenton Whelan and financial outfit Vanbrugh Prime Property have opened up a their specialist top-of-the-top-end London fund to punters with just £60,000 to invest - making it, they ca…
12 under-invested cities that are due to out-pace the prime world
'Real estate is increasingly becoming a mainstream asset class for investors' says Candy & Candy in its latest GPS Report, which identifies 12 cities around the world which have the potential to deliver…
World’s most expensive flat sells – shell & core – in London
Penthouse D in Candy & Candy's One Hyde Park development has just been snapped up for a rumoured £140m
Q1 sales boom for Ladbroke Grove, Westbourne Grove and Bayswater
W11-based outfit Crayson has also been totting up the scores from Q1 and reckons ppsf values achieved so far in 2014 across its enviable K&C patch are 14.3% above where they were a year ago.
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‘Notorious’ Rockwood Estate up for auction
The Rockwood Estate - a 360-acre swathe of Surrey including an eleven-bedroom mansion reported to have once been the home of Benazir Bhutto - has been listed for public auction this summer.
Three Little Words… that add up to 40% to a property’s value
These are always fun. Mayfair agent Wetherell has been trawling the archives again to see what place names do to property prices
The Story of Mayfair: Wetherell writes the book
People sometimes say that self-proclaimed Mayfair Guru Peter Wetherell wrote the book on prime W1 property; well now he literally has
Top three risks to the central London property market: Mansion Tax, interest rate rises & over-inflated prices
The results of the Lonres Spring Agents Survey are in, and they're probably best described as "mixed". There's lots to digest as usual, so let's get amongst it.
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