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Sphere Estates to launch after Abercrombie & Kent management buyout
Luxury travel brand Abercrombie & Kent's property arm - Abercrombie & Kent International Estates - is morphing into a new operation - Sphere Estates - following a management buyout by the company's General…
Buy-to-Let Stamp Duty: What the new surcharge means for the property market
After George Osborne used his Autumn Statement to drop a surprise bombshell on the property investment sector, tacking an extra 3% SDLT levy on second homes and buy-to-let properties, Savills has produced…
Special Delivery: Sager and Cain Hoy unveil £400m Islington Square scheme
Sager Group and Cain Hoy have lifted the lid on their much-anticipated reimagining of the ginormous former North London Royal Mail Centre.
‘Wonderfully fruitful’ Q3 in the West End – CBRE
CBRE has reported a "wonderfully fruitful" quarter in the West End, with a 78% rise in sales activity compared with Q2. Sales so far this year are now up 41% on the same period last year.
Global house prices ‘step up a gear’ as all eyes turn to the Fed
Knight Frank's Global House Price Index increased by 2.7% in the year to September 2015, as five of the 55 tracked countries posted double-digit growth and the pace of China's decline slowed.
Government to look at ‘encouraging’ the online estate agency model
Her Majesty's Treasury is looking at ways of "injecting innovation into the process of home buying" to cut costs for homeowners, speed up processes and jolly transaction numbers along.
Lodha’s Altamount smashes Indian price record
Lodha's first Luxury Collection development - Altamount in Mumbai - has notched up the highest per square foot price for a single apartment in India.
Bloomsbury mansion block sells off air space after unexcavated basement goes for £150k
If you missed out on the unexcavated basement beneath this Bloomsbury mansion block last month, you can now snap up the empty air space above it.
OnTheMarket to ‘remain a significant #3’ property portal as Zoopla gets an investor upgrade
Leading financial analysts have upgraded their position on Zoopla Property Group in relation to challenger portal OnTheMarket.com, arguing that the Rightmove-Zoopla one-two "status quo will hold".
LendInvest ‘now backing 1% of all privately developed homes in the UK’
Online property investment platform LendInvest is claiming to have backed 1% of the privately built homes in the UK this year.
Stamp duty rollback offered on Maida Vale scheme
A developer in Maida Vale has launched a new scheme with an interesting pre-Christmas perk.
In Pictures: The £16m Mayfair ‘mega-lateral’
A three-bed on Albermarle Street has just been launched as "Mayfair and the West End's largest luxury apartment” although we'd probably throw in "currently available" just to be on the safe side.