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Super-prime buyers want flats, says LonRes
In a predictable prime central London property market where demand is still strong and supply short, LonRes's Spring Market Report highlights the differences in what buyers want below and above a £2m …
Scale of resi tax avoidance revealed
Unpublished government estimates, obtained by investigative website Exaro, have revealed "about 5,000 residential properties (as opposed to land or commercial property), each worth £2 million or more, …
Savills triumphs again
Savills has once again secured its position as the UK’s number one property services firm by turnover, in Property Week’s annual survey of property advisors, for the ninth consecutive year and since the…
PCL prices hit record high
Knight Frank's latest Prime Central London Index reports that, despite a 10
Malaysian bid wins Battersea Power Station
Battersea Power Station will be developed by SP Setia and Sime Darby, after the Malaysian bidders beat an estimated 15 rival proposals, including one by Chelsea Football Club to turn the 15-hectare site …
9-10/06/12 – Open Garden Squares Weekend
This weekend is the ever-popular Open Garden Squares Weekend in London, organised by the London Parks & Gardens Trust in association with the National Trust
Strutt & Parker joins forces with Christie’s
Strutt & Parker today confirmed their affiliation agreement with Christie’s International Real Estate, in a deal that will "leverage Christie's worldwide marketing reach, global auction house exposure, an…
Classical Cribs
In this week's interiors briefing, Anna Bastiaenen looks at creating a stylish nursery using some familiar characters
Zoopla founder Chesterman to lead merged property portals
Alex Chesterman, the founder of Zoopla, is to lead the newly merged Zoopla-Digital Property Group, as it challenges Rightmove for the top property portal position
Milstein appointed new Chairman of the Residential Property Surveyors Association
Alan Milstein has taken over from Martin Tate as Chairman of the Residential Property Surveyors Association (RPSA)
Call for listed building tax u-turn gathers momentum
A fleet of heritage and professional organisations including Master Builders and listed property owners are campaigning to make the government scrap the 20 per cent VAT for work on listed building that…
‘Government has listened to property industry’s fears’; PwC
PwC and Deloitte have commented on the government's current consultation on a new annual charge on prime resi properties owned by ‘non-natural’ persons, and a proposed extension of capital gains tax.
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