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London wins bid to host 2023 Ecocity World Summit
First held in 1990, the biennial Ecocity World Summit brings the world's urban stakeholders together to discuss what can be done "to rebuild our human habitat in balance with living systems".
Urban renewal design practice Leslie Jones adds senior talent
Lydia Firminger has joined Leslie Jones Architecture to work on major city centre regeneration masterplans.
JLL shuffles leadership team
Consultancy has made changes to its client-facing and regional commercial real estate teams.
Buyers circle super-prime receivership sale in Surrey
Trio of mansions near Guildford are being sold on the instructions of receivers for a combined £23.5m
Ranked: London’s busiest property markets
3.3% of private homes in London changed hands in a 12 month periods, with eight boroughs seeing more than one in every 25 homes sell.
Field Studies Council looks to offload Georgian mansion in Pembrokeshire
Studies that took place at Orielton are said to have inspired the classic novel ‘Watership Down’
Most architects expect workloads to continue climbing in the coming months
"There are looming challenges," warns RIBA's research chief, "but overall architects are optimistic about the months ahead."
RBKC bids to curb resi development of former Notting Hill police station
Kensington & Chelsea Council is bidding to buy the old Notting Hill Police Station building in Holland Park, which is due to formally go up for sale this month.
Knight Frank adds to London resi valuations team
Lucy Partington has joined the agency after ten years at Cluttons
Updated Covid guidance for home-movers & the property industry
The Government has updated official pandemic guidance for the property industry and those moving home in England, tweaking the advice to reflect changes to self isolation periods.
‘House price growth may start to tail off’ in the next few months, says OnTheMarket boss
The average asking price of a property listed for sale outside London on OnTheMarket in December was £364k, up 3.7% from the same month last year. Within Greater London, the average asking price was £1.
Super-prime property sales hit record highs in London
“London’s super-prime markets stellar end to the year is evidence of the influence that the pandemic-fuelled desire for more space has on residential markets," says Savills.