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For Sale: Foxtons confirms £55m September float plans
Today's the day that Foxtons formerly hangs out the For Sale sign, with an announcement that the estate agency will float at least 50% of its shares on the FTSE stock market.
Busted Flush: Estate agency insolvencies on the rise
The number of estate agencies going bust in Britain has leapt by 57% in the last 12 months, according to a report by accountants Wilkins Kennedy.
British buyers hone in on West End prime
Flying in the face of recent reports estimating that nearly three-quarters of London's new-build stock is sold abroad, one agency has reported a very different story going on right in the heart of the…
Pickles wants cameras in planning meetings after bloggers threatened with arrest
Eric Pickles has warned that freedom of speech and independent journalism are under attack in local government, after local residents were threatened with arrest for filming and reporting council meetings.
Defra puts the wind up DECC over rural house prices
There's a storm brewing between the Depart. for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) and the Dept. for Energy and Climate Change (DECC) over what impact wind turbines have on rural house prices.
Landlords policing immigration would be “bureaucratic and overly cumbersome” – RLA
The Residential Landlords’ Association has put in its official response to the Government’s consultation on plans to introduce mandatory tenant immigration checks (announced back in May) – opposing…
Jones Lang LaSalle revises forecasts; PCL prices to rise by 6% in 2013 and 3% nationally
Jones Lang LaSalle has joined the flurry of firms significantly revising their market predictions up for the rest of the year and beyond.
Northacre lands Kazakh Embassy development on Thurloe Square
Northacre's new CEO Niccolo Barattieri di San Pietro is off to a righteous start, with the luxury developer being appointed as development manager with 15% stake on an Abu Dhabi Capital Management resi…
Jones Lang chief moves on
Andrew Gould, Jones Lang LaSalle’s former UK chief exec, is heading off at the end of the month after his Summer sabbatical.
Planning nod for Hempel resi conversion
Amazon Property, in partnership with British Land, has been given the thumbs up by Westminster's planners to convert the former Hempel Hotel in Bayswater into eighteen luxury apartments.
“Unprecedented” £825k planning fee for Kensington megabasement
A hedge fund manager is going to have to dig deeper than expected after being landed with an £825,000 Section 106 fee for a lumpy basement excavation in Ladbroke Grove.
Birmingham tops buy-to-let hot spots
Birmingham is best for buy-to-let investors, offering a 10%+ rental yield, according to a new survey by Home.co.uk and Move with Us.