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Top-end sales jump as PCL responds quickly to political certainty
Q4 was a record quarter for £20m+ deals in Central London, reports Savills, while December saw the highest number of £5m+ sales since 2014.
NEO Bankside residents head back to court to appeal Tate Modern privacy ruling
Southbank apartment owners are having another go at blocking some of Tate Modern's viewing deck.
‘There are glimmers of growing confidence’ in the architecture profession – RIBA
Architects got a bit more pessimistic about future workloads in December, but the Royal Institute of British Architects has spotted signs of improvement after an extended period of volatility...
Cripps Pemberton Greenish hires leasehold enfranchisement expert
Amy Jackson joins the leasehold enfranchisement team from Forsters
The next move in PCL sales prices should be up – JLL
'The prospects are more positive than they have been for five years', says the agency, tipping both transactions and prices to rally over the next three months...
‘We’ve never seen such a sharp increase in buyer and seller activity’ – Chestertons
Major London agency reports noteworthy uplifts in buyer registrations, offers made and new instructions as improved sentiment begins to translate into action
Record year for Knight Frank’s South West team
Division reports its most successful year since 2009, with volumes up by nearly 40% and an unprecedented number of £2m+ deals...
A developer wants to turn a Grade II listed gasholder into ‘London’s first alligator park’
Omer Weingberger’s Avanton has been brainstorming ideas for the four-acre site it snapped up on Old Kent Road last year...
Unfinished Belgravia townhouse project seeks £6.95m
A rare refurbishment opp is up for sale between Buckingham Palace and Belgrave Square, an area recently dubbed 'Billionaires' Strip'
Surveyors’ sales market expectations ‘improve noticeably’
The latest update from the RICS is markedly more positive than previous months...
Green light for East London’s vast Westferry Printworks development
Richard Desmond's 15-acre former print works site on the Isle of Dogs is set to deliver around 1,500 new homes.
New mortgage lending dips by 10%
10.6% fewer homemover mortgages completed in November 2019 compared to the same month a year earlier - although the decline "reflects particularly strong home-purchase activity in November 2018"