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Create Streets founder to lead the government’s new planning design body
Nicholas Boys Smith has been tasked with coming up with guidance to help planners come up with local design codes.
£35m price tag for mega-mansion on UK’s most expensive street
The leisure facilities at Five Ilchester Place 'rival some of the most luxurious boutique hotels in London, if not beyond', say agents...
Sales success for Octagon at flagship Surrey scheme
Luxury housebuilder’s first foray into the mainstream market is delivering results...
‘Exciting’ Canary Wharf office-to-resi opp seeks £17.5m
Bellerive House is being sold off with planning for 65 resi units.
RICS chief Bolton King steps down
Peter Bolton King has "semi-retired" from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, after nearly nine years as Global Residential Director.
In Pictures: Apartments for rent in ‘London’s grandest vicarage’
Trio of residences are housed in a storied redbrick mansion next to the former St Mark's Church in Mayfair.
Upsizers boost larger home prices to a record high
Agreed sales of detached 4+ bedroom houses more than doubled from August 2019 to August 2020 (+104%), reports Rightmove. Sales of other three- or four-bedroom homes were up by 55%.
Ex-Knight Frank boss Lord Hay completes 1,000km solo charity trek
Andrew Hay, who retired from Knight Frank earlier this year after nearly 40 years with the firm, has completed a remarkable 1,000km solo trek along one of the most historic routes in Europe, raising over…
‘A lot of players are ending up in hotels’: Footballers struggle to score top-end rental homes
A shortage of £15k+ per month listings means that some Premiership footballers have been unable to find homes to rent as the new season starts, says Knight Frank.
Fine & Country signs first licensee in Asia
Upper-end estate agency brand is launching its first outpost in Asia, setting up shop in Hong Kong.
High-flying former Savills director launches new buying agency
Richard Winter has left Savills after 17 years to specialise in acquiring high-end homes in and around Surrey’s ‘Golden Triangle’.
High-end homebuyers ‘ditch flats for detached homes in lifestyle 360’
Sales of £5m+ detached houses have fallen far less than similarly-priced apartments since the Spring Covid-19 lockdown, suggests data mined by Enness Global Mortgages.