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Bidding on a house? There’s an app for that
Savills has partnered up with Barclays to offer auction-goers even more impulsive ways to buy: just scan the QR thing from within the bank's Pingit app, and job done.
Planners return to BBC with Permission Impossible
The BBC is putting more flies on soon-to-be-walls as it's much-discussed show Planners makes a welcome return next week.
Sentimental Value: Eleventh consecutive month of rises for Knight Frank index
Knight Frank's Future House Price Sentiment Index is getting a bit predictable: another record high in February takes it to 11 months of ever-happier homeowners in a row.
“Candy-ification” boosting London’s luxury rental market – Wetherell
The capital's luxury rental market is in the midst of "Candy-ification", according to one Mayfair-based firm, with increasing numbers of properties sporting monthly asking prices of between £60,000-£80,000.
Like, Yah: Winkworth goes coffee shop chic
What did people do before classic US sitcom Friends gave rise to coffee shops on every street corner? Where on earth did freelancers and students sit all day? When did skinny chai tea lattes become acceptable?
Make-your-own Bordeaux: Berry Bros offers fine wine-making by the barrel
Forget BYOB. Tipple-monger Berry Bros. & Rudd has usurped the idea with MYOB.
RDAS names new Chairman
Simon Hodson, head of JLL's Residential Land team, has been appointed as Chairman of the Residential Development Agents Society (RDAS).
Supply lines under pressure as demand shows no signs of letting up – Bidwells
Countryside Properties' proposed new scheme, part of the Great Kneighton development project
The Cambridge new homes market is witnessing one of its busiest trading periods over the last decade and beyond.
“Debilitating” taxes cause Singapore property market slump
Total residential investment sales in Singapore slumped to S$862.
London resi projects lead construction growth
Residential construction - high value London projects in particular - is leading the industry charge, with 36% of January's total construction contracts going for home uses.
Types of projects
Hackney Quick: 350 buyers queue up in East London
If you needed proof that the capital's property market was sizzling hot right now, how about 350 buyers queuing up outside an estate agency for the chance to buy an off-plan flat?
The Mission
Lodha strikes again in London with £90m Holborn acquisition
Mumbai-based uber-developer Lodha has struck again in prime London, buying the London School of Business and Finance's Holborn campus, New Court on Carey Street, for around £90m with big plans to turn…