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CBRE bolsters UK planning team
Turley's Sarah Stevens joins as Senior Director
Clivedale hires PRCO as rollout of £1.1bn pipeline begins
Super-prime specialist Clivedale London has engaged the services of global communications agency PRCO as it gears up to deliver the first development projects from its £1.1bn pipeline.
Record number of planning applications ‘gives London a shot at 50,000 homes target’
The number of residential planning applications in London has surged, with the first six months of the year racking up 38% more than the average rate since 2010.
How have prime residential yields performed in the last 12 months?
As we discovered in the recent English Housing Survey, there's been a significant and sustained shift towards renting over home-ownership, with England's Private Rented Sector doubling in size in the…
Hong Kong’s CC Land eyes further UK acquisitions
The Hong Kong developer behind the blockbusting acquisitions of the "Cheesegrater" skyscraper and Nine Elms Square sounds keen to add some more UK assets to its collection.
Which political party holds the most expensive constituencies? (it’s not the Conservatives)
Green and Lib Dem constituencies have the highest average house prices in the UK, while Tory seats linger down in third place, according to some delvings.
Stamp duty surcharge ‘has deterred 4 in 10 of all BTL buyers’
The number of loans forwarded to buy-to-let investors held steady in June, but crucially we're at the stage where some meaningful comparisons can be made with pre-SDLT surcharge days.
Take a hike: National Trust in ground rent storm
The National Trust has found itself in the middle of a storm over ground rents, after it was revealed that some of its tenants face eye-watering hikes of "up to 10,000%".
Native Land installs electric car chargers in Mayfair
Native Land is installing 50 electric car charging points in the underground car park of its 42-apartment prime resi scheme, Burlington Gate in Mayfair.
Best Guess: US portal giant wins dispute over automated ‘valuation’ tool
An interesting case in the US has been examining the role of a major portal's automated "valuation" tool, after homeowners took umbrage with the figures.
Another firm calls the bottom of the London house price slowdown
It's a rather toned-down version of calling the bottom of the market, but another firm has started using "bottom of the slowdown" language to describe London's property landscape...