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‘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"
Winkworth shares jump after positive trading update
Agency set to outperform market expectations after riding out an 'uncertain and difficult' 2019
UK house prices post 2.2% annual rise
Monthly movement of 0.4% between October and November compared with a fall of 0.4% at the same point in 2018;
‘Prices are rising across more global cities but at a slower rate’ – Knight Frank
At +24%, Budapest saw the fastest residential property price inflation of any major world city in the year to September 2019
Caudwell sells turnkey Côte d’Azur penthouse
In Pictures: British property developer Caudwell bags €6m+ for a lavish contemporary penthouse flat at Parc du Cap in Cap d’Antibes
Far East Consortium sets up UK construction arm
DEX Construction has been launched by FEC Group in Manchester to take over from Bardsley Construction, which went into administration just before Christmas.