Format: Views
Prime Property of the Week: New Romantic
Penthouse, The Limes, Mortlake
£2.2m
This glorious riverside affair will no doubt be familiar to eagle-eyed property peeps like yourselves.
Aerial Assault: Drones, private property and the law
Where does the law stand on drones infringing onto private property? Is it trespass? What if you can't identify the owner? Can you take the law into your own hands?
Making Tracks: How will improving transport links affect the prime country market?
Will the current raft of multimillion pound rail improvement projects result in a cultural shift towards buyers looking further afield?
Case Study: Maximising a modern mews house
Mossop Street-based Wilben Developments has just smashed the price record on Eagle Place (you know, behind the Ferrari showroom on the Old Brompton Road) with the sale of this little beauty for £3.9m.
Pricing the Unpriceable: How to value international trophy homes
Redefining the pinnacle of residential real estate is a lofty task, notes Christie’s International Real Estate.
Prime Property of the Week: Brick Bait
Ovington Square
£9.7m (OIEO)
Remember that Hans Place house that grabbed loads of headlines (including ours) for being the most expensive online-only instruction ever at £15.5m last year?
Weakness in PCL demand ‘to continue until at least September’
Six weeks on from the election and the capital's supply and demand levels remain way off-kilter, according to these reports from buying agents on the prime front line...
Slowly Slowly Catchee Monkey: Abrahmsohn on the post-election market
It'll take a number of months for buying activity to reach the level that sellers assume is already the case, says Glentree boss Trevor Abrahmsohn...
INTERVIEW: David Linley on Battersea, Claridge’s and taking British style to Moscow
Leader of the eponymous LINLEY empire and Chairman of top auction house Christie's
Prime Property of the Week: The Westminster Revival
Mulberry House, Smith Square
£25m
Caricature Homes: Why are some developers creating show homes for stereotypes?
Some developers are creating show homes for extreme stereotypes, not people, rages Alan Page as he moots a few suggestions to help the unimaginative designer.
Relativity from the Real World: On leasehold vs freehold valuations
With the Upper Tribunal due to hear conjoined cases on relativity at the end of November, James Wyatt investigates important research into the relationship between freehold and leasehold values, which…