Format: News
Stumbling Blocks: The brick ‘famine’ stifling London’s housing market
A massive shortfall of bricks is threatening to become the biggest stumbling block for resi developers across the capital, according to new claims that some firms are already turning down opportunities…
Luxury asset lender enters the prime resi arena
An online platform that lets people borrow cash by putting their luxury assets up as collateral is apparently poised to make a "big splash" in the prime and super-prime resi sector.
Principia scales new heights for charity
The brave souls at Principia Estate and Asset Management have raised a whopping £17,000 in aid of male cancer charity the Orchid Cancer Appeal, by abseiling 541 feet down London's scarily-high Broadgate…
Opportunities & Pitfalls: How macro machinations are affecting EMEA’s luxury property market
The ultra-wealthy's appetite for luxury properties in Europe, the Middle East and Africa is growing, says Sotheby's International Real Estate and Wealth-X, after the pair's UHNW Residential Real Estate…
EMEA’s Future-Prime Hotspots: Madrid, Dubai and Cape Town
With the per square foot price of property in London standing at between three and nine times as much as that of Madrid, Dubai and Cape Town, these three cities all present strong and improving value…
Giant Mortlake brewery site hits the market
One of the biggest resi development opportunities in SW London has just hit the market.
Sign of the Times: John D Wood’s long-serving boards get a ‘modern makeover’
Estate agency John D Wood & Co has touched up its For Sale and To Let boards, revamping a design that's lined streets across London, Surrey, Hampshire and Oxfordshire unchanged for the last 25 years.
Covent Garden ex-council causes a stir
Dubbed "the UK's most expensive ex-local authority flat"
213 super-prime units due for completion in PCL this year; development market ‘vibrant’
Resi development in the capital remained "vibrant" in Q2, according to new analysis by Cushman & Wakefield, with strong levels of construction starts and sales.
At-A-Glance: Prime Central London’s Q2
Cushman & Wakefield has done a very good job of summing up how PCL's top areas performed during Q2.
OnTheMarket queries Zoopla’s performance
Yesterday, Zoopla Property Group reported that it had clawed a few agents back from OnTheMarket in a return to “more normal historic levels” of agent churn.
PCL’s property market is fragmenting as the top-end collapses – LCP
"The brakes are firmly on at the more expensive end" of the prime central London property market, says Naomi Heaton of London Central Portfolio, as the fast and slow lanes diverge.