Format: News
2013’s Top PCL Performers: Big houses in SW7 & small flats in W1
Values across prime central London have increased by 8.7% over the last 12 months, according to acquisition firm Huntly Hooper, with W14 seeing the biggest price per square foot boost of all.
Commercial Break: The resi rebirth of Canary Wharf
The Canary Wharf residential market is scaling up, and in more ways than one.
Another £100m+ mansion for St James’s?
Forming the glorious northern flank of The Mall, Carlton House Terrace hit the headlines in a big way in 2013, when one of its super-grand stucco-fronted mansions came to the (grey) market in April for…
Savills announces strong set of results as UK resi transaction profits jump 34%
Savills has turned in a strong set of preliminary results for 2013, with the resi side of the UK business looking in particularly fine fetter.
“Offers In Excess” not misleading – Advertising Standards
The Advertising Standards Authority has decided it's cool with agents marketing properties with the tagline "Offers in Excess" or OIEO.
Tryon bags top HNW property award
Ed Tryon of acquisition firm Lichfields has walked away with the top property gong at the Spear's Young Turk Awards 2014.
Sisk appointed on new Alchemi scheme
Alchemi Group has hired construction firm John Sisk & Son to build its latest resi project in Victoria.
The world’s top ten most valuable property portals
The world's top ten property portal companies are worth a combined £18 billion, according to some new stats on the matter.
Budget2014: Osborne & little change for prime property
Chancellor George has extended the 15% SDLT rate for residential property bought through a corporate envelope from £2m all the way to £500,000, in a move that looks to be aimed squarely at cutting the…
Notting Hill Runs Wild with new property magazine launch
Runwild Media - publishers of property-porn-tastic titles including The Mayfair Magazine, Vantage and The Kensington & Chelsea Magazine - has launched a new mag specifically for the residents of Notting…
Noughts and Crossings: Will four new bridges change the look of London’s property market?
From Teddington Lock to the open sea at Dartford, the River Thames is criss-crossed by 34 bridges. In future years, four new bridges are planned for London (seven for the Thames in total).
Peer-to-peer lender launches tranched mortgages
LendInvest, the peer-to-peer mortgage lending platform, has announced that it has completed a "world-first" tranched peer-to-peer mortgage.
The loan was for £365, 250 against a property in Croydon.