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Grosvenor appoints first Director of Sustainability & Innovation
Placemaking director Tor Burrows takes on a new role to help the firm hit its ambitious environmental goals
Prime Movers 2020: Nominate the top luxury property agencies of the year
Have your say: Nominations are now open for PrimeResi Journal's Top 50 Buying Agency and Top 50 Boutique Estate Agency indices for 2020
£150m Knightsbridge Estate scheme tops out
The Olayan Group, Chelsfield & Skanska are working together on transforming an iconic swathe between Harrods and Harvey Nicks into a major new mixed-use scheme, delivering 35 'luxurious' rental apartments…
High-end deal surge in Prime Central London as buyers jump the gun
£5m-plus sales soared by 78% in the final quarter as wealthy purchasers chose not to wait for the result of the General Election, reports LonRes
Optimism returns to the property industry – but estate agents are looking to diversify
Key findings from Zoopla's annual "State of the Property Nation" include a marked upswing in estate agencies' sentiment, but there's continued uncertainty over the political situation.
Asking prices post biggest January rise on record as a ‘window of stability’ encourages activity
Rightmove recorded its biggest ever December/January asking price "surge" in the wake of the General Election - led by more expensive "top of the ladder" properties.
Rents rise at the fastest pace since 2014 – Hamptons
Average rental payments across the country increased by 3.7% in 2019, and have escalated by 81% in the last decade.
Mapped: The ‘meteoric’ rise of ‘American-style’ build-to-rent in the UK
UK regions saw a dramatic 51% increase in the number of "American-style" purpose-built rental homes completed in 2019, according to Savills, the British Property Federation and Molior.
Countryside names new Southern chief
Mike Woolliscroft has been promoted to Chief Executive of Countryside Properties' Partnerships South division
Resi-to-office switch mooted at Battersea Power Station
Developer wants to delay the delivery of around 250 residential apartments in favour of fast-tracking more office space.
MTD’s £500m One Crown Place tops out
KPF-designed development on the edge of the City is delivering 246 private apartments, along with a boutique hotel, office space and new retail units
Lisbon, Sydney & Moscow set to lead residential price growth in 2020
"While the outlook for 2020 is generally more positive" than in 2019, says Savills, "price growth in prime residential markets is still expected to be modest across many global cities"