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80-acre site of former Hertfordshire boarding school up for sale
The former home of Princess Helena College centres around an important 18th century mansion, which was once reworked by Sir Edwin Lutyens and has a set of gardens designed by Gertrude Jekyll.
Cladding: Why do leaseholders have to pay at all, asks Housing Secretary Gove
"I'm still unhappy with the principle of leaseholders having to pay at all" for the cladding scandal, said Michael Gove yesterday. "My questions is why do they have to pay at all?"
Kingsley Napley creates new tax practice
“The intention is to service tax matters in-house more than the firm has done historically and to add further specialists in due course,” says top law firm as it recruits new partners.
PCL property prices set to rise 5-10% in 2022, predicts Strutt & Parker
National estate agency Strutts is forecasting price growth of between 20% and 35% by 2025 across the UK, and somewhere between 15% and 35% over five years in Prime Central London.
High-end sales surge boosts stamp duty receipts
Latest quarterly stats from HMRC signal 'significant' activity at the top-end - and reveal the impact of the recently-introduced overseas buyer surcharge...
Prime London rents rise at fastest rate since 2011
“It’s been an extraordinary period for the whole market in PCL,” says David Mumby, head of Prime Central London lettings at Knight Frank.
Brokers flock to agency’s £300k country house commission offer
Fine & Country is touting a £300k finders fee for introductions to a buyer for a sticky £30m mansion in Berkshire.
Ranked: Which areas have seen the biggest rise in the total value of housing stock over the course of the pandemic?
Only three local authority areas in England and Wales saw the total value of their housing stock fall during the pandemic period, and they're all in the capital: Westminster (-10.1%), Lambeth (-2.
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Price rises are an ‘unmistakable sign of recovery’ for prime London’s property market
“We are not on the verge of the sort of dramatic double-digit bounce-back in prices,” says Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at Knight Frank.
Para 80 project approved on the edge of Sussex’s Ashdown Forest
A new contemporary home set within a Humphrey Repton-designed park has been given the green light by Wealden District Council.
Mount Anvil recruits Berkeley’s former Commercial Property Director
Gavin Hubrich spent 11 years at Berkeley Group's St George in London.