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Heron Plaza site sells to Singapore’s UOL Group
Singapore-based UOL Group has bought the Heron Plaza site on Bishopsgate from Gerald Ronson's Heron International for £97m, with plans for luxury residential apartments, a hotel and retail units.
Oaktree-backed Anthology completes senior team
New Oaktree Capital Management-backed property developer Anthology has completed its senior team by hiring former Mount Anvil man David Clark.
Houses as museums / museums as houses: 12-13th September, The Wallace Collection
What's the difference between a home and a museum?
Which UK Government has overseen the biggest house price rises?
With May 2015 already looming large, one agency has been looking into how the country's house prices have historically fared under Labour and Tory reign.
Hamptons taps into short let boom
Hamptons International has decided to launch a dedicated Short Lets Department in response to a 'significant rise in demand'.
Turning up the Volumes: UK transactions hit highest level since 2007
Q2 Land Registry stats are out and LCP's done a sterling job of breaking them down for us. Here's the headlines...
Prime Central London
‘Dark storm brewing’ for China’s domestic property portals
"A dark storm is brewing in China’s local real estate market," proclaims Andrew Taylor, the co-founder of Chinese super-portal Juwai, as reports circulate that local realtors and agents are boycotting…
The ‘Uberfication’ of the real estate industry (video)
The property industry can learn a lot from minicab app Uber, concludes a panel of US real estate experts assembled by Inman News.
Country Life Fair: 27-28th September, Fulham Palace
The inaugural Country Life Fair is primed to take over the grounds of Fulham Palace in West London in September.
Sotheby’s hits 1m visits a month
Luxury real estate colossus Sotheby’s International Realty has been attracting some bumper online traffic lately; the firm's global website clocked up over a million visits last month.
Church sells four acres of Mayfair to Crowns for £381m
The Church has offloaded its 64% stake in the Pollen Estate - that four acre square of Mayfair between Conduit Street, Regent Street, Burlington Gardens and Bond Street - for £381m to Norway's sovereign…
Green Belt resi development on the rise
There's been a bloom of residential developments on Green Belt land under the Coalition Government, with the number of resi approvals rising by 148% over the last five year.