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World in London #2: London in the world
The second part of Savills’ World in London 2014 report sees Sophie Chick and Lucy Greenwood exploring the truth about international buyers in London, and analysing where our capital sits in the global…
Love Thy Neighbour: Residential property development and the law of nuisance
From encroachment to physical damage, building work can affect a neighbouring property in a whole host of different ways. C
Prime Property of the Week: Best Addressed
Kensington Palace Gardens
£23.5m (Guide Price)
You could honestly wait years for something like this to come up.
Not in my back (vine)yard: Goodbye Saint Tropez
Who needs Saint Tropez when you've got Frome, asks our resident Doer Upper Alan Page as the French authorities force him to take on his first English Country project..
Are we finally seeing the return of the big spenders?
Super-prime buyers are coming out of the woodwork at last, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
Prime Property of the Week: Perfect Orme
Orme Square
£17m
How You Know: Why staying in touch with old colleagues can lead to more than just a hangover
No matter how many many cards we swap, tweets we chirp, or LinkedIn requests we send, former colleagues can often be the most useful contacts in our address books, says Rupert Collingwood...
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International in Perspective: It all matters to someone
Russians, Chinese, Ukrainians, Indians... There's always someone "dominating" London's property market, says James Bailey as he gears his Belgravia agency up for full global proficiency.
Cheques Please: Why new lending checks are absurd, counter productive, and won’t end well
New mortgage rules prefer corporate dullards to wealthy entrepreneurs, says our resident Doer Upper Alan Page, as he misses the joys of seeing a proper bank manager.
If you're rich you can't borrow
Prime Property of the Week: Bankside Story
Penthouse, NEO Bankside
£19.75m
The Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners-designed NEO Bankside scheme has won pretty much every property award going during its short existence, and rightly so.
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Lending Curbs: Is now really the time for action?
It's not as if lending institutions are throwing money at consumers; if anything, they're taking too long to process mortgage offers and putting a lag on responsible transactions, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
Development Case Study: The Westminster office-to-resi scheme
Change of use may be all the rage in London, but how do you actually go about creating desirable, profitable units from an unloved office building? Here's how one firm transformed a Grade II* Georgian gem o…