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Rude place names cost house prices £84,000
The folks at Needaproperty have spent two months making a list of Britain's rudest street names - Minge Lane, Crotch Crescent and the like - and getting a statistics-head (Dr Geoff Ellis) to try to quantify…
Marsh & Parsons opens in SheBu
158-year-old estate agency Marsh & Parsons is to open a new office on Askew Road in West London in March, taking its total branch tally in the capital to 19.
Countrywide turns in best ever January and goes on the hunt for a new CEO
The UK's largest estate agency, Countrywide, has reported its best January in 28 years of trading.
Stepping down: Grenville Turner
The firm generated a whopping £50.
Battersea Power Station raises the bar with Phase Two marketing suite
The marketing suite for Battersea Power Station's Phase Two has been hoisted on top of the development in preparation of the units' release on 1st May.
Winkworth Oxford moves home
Winkworth has significantly upgraded its presence in Oxford, moving lock and stock up to a much larger premises and naming a new manager.
The firm's new "coffee shop" look
Glentree boss to reveal secret closing technique
Having shifted more than £3billion worth of bricks and mortar over the last forty years, what Trevor Abrahmsohn doesn't know about deal-making probably isn't worth knowing.
Levy lift to put self-builders back on track
Around 3,000 "mothballed" self build projects will kick back in to action as a result of the lifting of the Community Infrastructure Levy on owner-occupied and -commissioned homes, according to the government…
“Only 15%” of London’s new homes go to overseas buyers – BPF
Going by recent headlines, you'd be forgiven for thinking that nearly all of London's new-builds were being hoovered up by foreign investors.
Shropshire’s Elizabethan trove to go under the hammer
A rare gamut of Elizabethan and Jacobean furnishings is coming up for auction with Bonhams in Oxford, as a collection from Grade I listed Shropshire mansion Morville Hall is offered on 30th April.
Notting Hill, Holland Park & Kensington in “rude health” as prices per square foot rocket
The housing market in the swankier parts of West London (W8, W11, W2, W10 and W14) remains in "rude health", according to the latest from local agent Crayson.
Foster+Partners chief steps out
Sir Norman's Foster + Partners has decided to ditch the role of Chief Executive, replacing it with a more comradely Managing Partner.
Taylor Wimpey bags third Westminster site
Developer Taylor Wimpey Central London has snapped up yet another prominent site in Westminster, as the firm continues its PCL buying spree.