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Grand Registry: Surveying last month’s biggest registered deals
Hampstead Garden Suburb, Chelsea & Notting Hill saw the chunkiest transactions lodged with the Land Registry in January
Battersea Power Station signs up top-end brands
Boss, Kiehl’s, Space NK, Jo Malone & MAC will be among the first retailers to set up shop inside the iconic Grade II* centrepiece;
MIPIM postponed to June after coronavirus prompts exodus
Europe's biggest property networking event, MIPIM, has been pushed back from 10th March until the 2nd June.
CMA finds ‘worrying evidence that people who buy leasehold properties are being misled and taken advantage of’
A new report by the Competition & Markets Authority accuses property developers of mis-selling leasehold homes.
Plans drawn up for a ‘fairytale’ private house in Camden
Cloud House in NW5 "might have been conjured up by Walt Disney".
Investec backs Brill Place tower with £35m loan
Resi-led scheme in King's Cross will deliver 54 luxury apartments in a new 22 storey tower.
Mortgage approvals recover to 2016 levels
Mortgage approvals for house purchase rose to 70,900, the highest since February 2016, according to official data from the Bank of England.
Questions asked over developer’s payments to former Homes England chief
Malaysian developer EcoWorld reportedly paid Sir Edward Lister £480k when he was in charge of the government's 'housing accelerator'
Octagon reports ‘burst of reservations’ in Surrey & Fulham
January turned out to be a record month for the luxury housebuilder
Rightmove’s profits & revenue jump despite falling branch numbers
Estate agents spent an average of 8% more with Rightmove in 2019 than in 2018. But the portal lost 3% of its member agencies in the year...
Repair rather than rebuild: Heritage buildings must be ‘recycled’ if the UK is to meet carbon emission goals
"End fast fashion for buildings" to help tackle climate change says a new report from Historic England; "repair rather than rebuild".
Radical stamp duty reform would pay for itself, says think tank
The Centre for Policy Studies reiterates the case for a wholesale rethink of stamp duty ahead of next month's Budget;