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Stelios to “aggressively slash estate agency fees” with easyProperty launch
easyBillionaire Sir Stelios Haji-Ioannou is finally getting in to property, with a very bright orange holding page for easyProperty trumpeting a move into the industry "in true 'easy' style."
Space Planning: Knight Frank goes galactic
Sub-orbital space travel has the right stuff to "radically shift global property markets," says Knight Frank (and Richard Branson) in its soon-to-launch Wealth Report 2014.
Global Live-Work costs spiral 21% since 2009 as world economies “rebalance”
Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris top a new list of the most expensive cities for live-work spaces from Savills, with all four topping the $100,000 per year mark.
Domestic purchasers dominate London’s Midtown market – CBRE
CBRE Residential (Midtown) - or EA Shaw as it used to be known - turned in a bumper end to the year by all accounts, reporting a 26% year-on-year boost in average values and a near-tripling in the total…
90% of househunters won’t compromise on location – Rightmove
Nine out of ten potential buyers "say they are not willing to compromise on their chosen location" according to Rightmove, despite 79% thinking that house prices are on the up over the next 12 months.
£44m secured for Shepherd’s Bush Market mixed use scheme
"Significant funding" to the tune of £44.
Property finance group recruits risk head from BoE
LendInvest and Montello, Christian Faes' peer-to-peer and short-term finance operations, have hired Mrinal Ray as Head of Risk and Compliance from the Bank of England.
English Rose’s early raid on the warchest
English Rose Estates has gone to town, spending £50m of its £300m warchest in the first two months of the year.
Royal Brompton Rejig: RBKC publishes planning guidance
The draft Supplementary Planning Document for 3.5 acres of the Royal Brompton Hospital’s land - potentially the most valuable PCL development opportunity since Chelsea Barracks - has just gone public.
Savills tops real estate SuperBrands list
Savills has walked away with the top spot in SuperBrands' Real Estate category.
Rude place names cost house prices £84,000
The folks at Needaproperty have spent two months making a list of Britain's rudest street names - Minge Lane, Crotch Crescent and the like - and getting a statistics-head (Dr Geoff Ellis) to try to quantify…
Marsh & Parsons opens in SheBu
158-year-old estate agency Marsh & Parsons is to open a new office on Askew Road in West London in March, taking its total branch tally in the capital to 19.