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Buyer offers £110m for Picasso’s Cannes mansion
One of the most famous villas in all of France could be about to hit the market, and it sounds like there's already been some private interest to the tune of £110m.
US buyers £33k worse off than last week as sterling soars
Foreign buyers have seen the cost of buying a property in the UK rocket over the last week, after a Tory election win sent the value of the pound skywards.
Asking prices fall in May for the first time in five years
Rightmove recorded an unseasonal but not unpredictable fall in asking prices before the election.
Goldsmith joins Chestertons board
Industry veteran and RICS Fellow Peter Goldsmith has joined the Chestertons board as non-exec director.
Super-prime market ‘moderated slightly’ ahead of polls – British Land
British Land has reported an "excellent" year for the resi side of the business, despite the pre-election heebie-jeebies.
Clarges Mayfair on Piccadilly
Pre-election new instructions fell at fastest rate since 2009 – RICS
Pre-election uncertainty saw new instructions fall for the third month in a row, and house prices rise again in all parts of the UK in April, according to the latest from the RICS.
PCL house price growth hits five-year low
Property prices in prime central London nudged up by 0.3% in April, says Knight Frank, to take the annual rate of growth at a five-year low of +2.8%.
Hunters adds 23 branches with Country Properties acquisition
Hunters estate agency has bought sales and lettings agents Country Properties, adding another 23 franchised branches to its network.
‘Average London house prices are likely to breach the £1m barrier before 2030’
Population, employment levels and average earnings are all set to rise faster in the capital than in the rest of the country over the next 15 years, predicts Oxford Economics, and that means that "average…
Pre-election nerves were ‘more dire than the Credit Crunch’ for prime central London property
Average prices in prime central London have dropped by 8% since Q4 2014, while transaction levels collapsed by 22.
Meier on Rothschild Tower joins high-rise elite after hitting £165m in sales
The super-luxe Meier on Rothschild Tower in Tel Aviv has officially joined the world's high-rise apartment scheme elite after racking up a whopping £165m in sales.
RESI Awards 2015: The Winners
Over 1,200 residential property folks dropped into Grosvenor House last night for the 2015 RESI Awards.