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Short supply drives RICS’ 2016 house price forecast up to +6%
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has bumped its property price forecast for 2016 up from +4.5% in November to +6% in its latest housing update.
Georgian Group Architectural Awards 2015: The Winners
The restoration of Belmont House in Lyme Regis, where John Fowles wrote The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Quinlan and Francis Terry Architects' remarkable Kilboy (below), and Capability Brown’s landscape…
Tributes paid to ‘visionary’ developer Harry Hyams
The property world has been paying tribute to one of Britain's most influential developers, Harry Hyams, who sadly passed away at the weekend aged 87.
Total value of PCL sales plummets by a quarter
The combined value of the houses and flats sold in prime central London fell by nearly 25% this year, according to new analysis by LonRes.
Kate Moss to launch interior design firm?
Supermodel Kate Moss appears to have enjoyed her stint working with Philippe Starck and John Hiscox’ celeb-design/development outfit Yoo.
Outer Prime to outshine PCL in 2016; Queen’s Park & Tooting the ‘hot tickets’
The fringes of the capital should comfortably outperform prime central London next year, according to Marsh & Parsons, with Queen's Park and Tooting picked out as the "hot tickets".
Newcourt snaps up prime Tunbridge Wells site
Newcourt Residential has bagged a rather lovely Victorian mews building just off the iconic Pantiles in Tunbridge Wells.
Newcourt MD Karl Elkhadraoui
Removals guru to pedal across the Atlantic in £100k charity challenge
The founder of high-end removals firm Ward Thomas Removals is planning to undertake a never-before-attempted challenge - crossing The Atlantic Ocean in a pedalo.
Luxury serviced apartment scheme planned at Islington Square
Sager Group and Cain Hoy are to launch "one of the most luxurious and exclusive hospitality offerings in London" at their new £400m Islington Square development.
Luxury apartment block delivers a ‘new aesthetic’ for South Kensington
A rather striking new addition to South Kensington has recently launched on Harrington Road.
Listless AIM listing for Purplebricks
Britain's first online estate agency to float on the stock market, Purplebricks, did not fly on its first day of trading.
Brace of big deals reported in Mayfair
We may be nearing full festive mode, but it sounds like a couple of significant deals have gone/are going down in Mayfair.