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Didn’t See That Coming: 2013 Forecasts in Review
The Lonres Quarterly Review has delivered again, with a smorgasboard of stats, insight and trends from the last three months and beyond.
Boles swipes at office-to-resi naysayers
Planning Minister Nick Boles has comes out swinging against local authorities that have "an irrational objection" to office-to-resi permitted development rights.
Scottish prime’s “gentle recovery”
"There are signs of a gentle recovery at the top end of the Scottish market," says Savills, as the volume of £1m+ sales begins to pick up and values nudge upwards. Prime Scottish prices rose by 1.
Earls Court on the move as Capco and TfL form JV
Transport for London and developer Capco are all set to agree terms to form a joint venture to bring forward the first phases of Sir Terry Farrell's (award-winning) Earls Court Masterplan.
“Exceptionally strong” luxury property sales volumes in London, Miami and New York
"The story for 2013 is about sales volume, not pricing growth," says a new report from Christie's International Real Estate and Strutt & Parker, as median prices in three of the world's top luxury destinations…
PCL rents finally on the rise as economy rebounds
Prime central London rents rose for the first time in 21 months in January, according to Knight Frank.
It was only a 0.2% increase, but that's still the biggest since September 2011.
Caan’s L+M recruits new finance and development head
James Caan’s development and construction consultancy Leadership and Management (L+M), part of his HBRE empire, has hired Joseph Sherratt as Head of Bank Finance and Development Monitoring.
KFH sets up shop in Clapham
KFH has added another office to its burgeoning network, as the firm's "aggressive" expansion plans continue apace.
Brace of record penthouse sales for Aston Chase
North London agency Aston Chase has been having a cracking start to the year, tucking away two record-breaking penthouse apartments in St John's Wood within a couple of days of each other.
Luxury Property Show bought for “six-figure sum”
Eton Events' annual champagne and real estate shindig - The Luxury Property Show - has been snapped up by a Daventry-based multimedia company.
Biggest ever January for househunting as Rightmove reports 500 pageviews per second
All ten of Rightmove's busiest ever days were recorded last month (January 2014), spiking with one big day of over 50 million pageviews - that's more than 500 pages viewed every second.
Zoopla could announce floatation “within weeks”
UPDATE: Sounds like things are moving along... Today's DMGT Interim Statement flags up that "The Board of the Zoopla Property Group (ZPG) is exploring various strategic options for ZPG. As a 52.