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Ten ways to tackle corruption in the planning system
Transparency International has identified five key corruption risks in the English planning system, and has suggested ten practical steps that could keep local authority decisions more legitimate.
RIBA calls for an ‘urgent reconsideration’ of ‘damaging’ planning reforms
"The government has missed a huge opportunity to make changes to the planning system for the better, and we call for urgent reconsideration," says RIBA's President Alan Jones.
Rightmove names new finance chief
Alison Dolan starts as CFO in September, on a base salary of nearly £400k.
Lifestyle buyers plough into UK farmland market
Savills' rural team reports a surge in demand for lifestyle/amenity farms amid a continuing shortage of supply...
Super-prime Chelsea chapel conversion seeks £15m
Five-bed super-home is one of two created from an 1841 chapel on Fulham Road, originally designed by the great Victorian architect Edward Blore.
‘Idyllic’ Mediterranean island fetches €10m
Ukrainian HNW named as the buyer of Gallinara, near Monte Carlo, which was used as as a hideout by Pope Alexander III in the 12th century, and as a base for the German army during WWII...
Strutt & Parker stands by 2020 property price forecasts, despite plunging transaction numbers
Average UK house prices are likely to drop by anything from 1% to 7% this year, predicts Strutt & Parker - although the short-term impact "could be much gloomier" in some parts of Prime Central London.
Interior designer in £1m spat over super-prime Notting Hill townhouse revamp
High society design & build firm Lucinda Sanford Ltd is embroiled in a high-stakes High Court legal dispute with aristocratic property owner Lord Russell over the £4m refurbishment of a super-prime home…
Property price growth plummets in prime global cities, but ‘this is not a financial crisis as in 2008’
Prime global cities indices from Knight Frank and Savills reveal how Covid-19 has affected international property markets.
Winkworth reports busiest July in five years
100-office network notes a ‘significant recovery in sales interest’ as Chancellor’s stamp duty holiday ‘turbo-charges’ the market
Purplebricks‘ UK revenue tumbles 11%; instructions down by nearly a quarter
Hybrid agency says it is ‘emerging through the Covid-19 pandemic in a very strong position’, with a healthy cash balance of £66m and a focus ‘fully on the UK’
£16m price tag for rare upper-floor unit at The Knightsbridge
Top-end design firm 1508 has carried out a full-scale refurb of the eighth floor four-bed at the game-changing scheme between Harrods and the Mandarin Oriental...