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Billionaires’ Row demolition job asks £10m
A £10m mansion on The Bishops Avenue has come up for sale with possible scope to knock it down and build something nearly four times bigger.
New CFO at the Crown Estate
The Crown Estate has appointed Kate Bowyer as its new Chief Financial Officer.
2016: The story of the prime London market so far
PCL search agency Turnbull Property has neatly summed up a rocky few months in the prime London market.
In or Out: Two post-Referendum scenarios for the prime London property sector
Nobody really know what the fallout of a Brexit would be, but it's pretty clear that a vote to leave the EU would create a markedly different economic landscape in prime central London compared to a Remain…
Staytus Quo, or Brexit, pursued by a bear market
A last-minute surge in confidence amongst betting types that Britain will keep its head and vote Remain saw the odds of a Brexit drop to 24% at leading bookmakers and sterling start a semi-dramatic rally…
Khan slams BoJo’s ‘toothless’ Concordat
London's new mayor has laid into his predecessor's efforts at preventing the capital's homes from being snapped up by foreign investors, dismissing BoJo's flagship initiative as "embarrassing" and…
Globrix co-founder secures big backing for ‘Google-style’ commercial portal
One of the founders of former News International-backed property portal Globrix (which merged with Zoopla in 2013) has made a big splash in the commercial sector.
Eurozone buyers ‘snapping up bargains in London’ as currency wobbles offer discounts
Euro buyers have been grabbing £26,000 discounts on London property, says Stirling Ackroyd, as EU Referendum nerves caused sterling to nosedive in June.
Top property developer pens open later urging Remain
The bosses of London's biggest housebuilder, Galliard Homes, have written an open letter to the business's entire address book urging voters - in the politest possible way - to go Remain in tomorrow's…
Behind The Schemes: Grand restoration plans revealed for Hampstead’s Athlone House
A grand plan has been unveiled to return one of north London's most important private houses to its former glory.
Buy-to-let sector a ‘ticking timebomb’ as major sell-off predicted for 2018/2019
Former financier and Maskells chief Charles Curran has analysed the likely effects of recent policy and regulatory changes combining with mortgage lending and tax issues, and concluded that many landlords…
Transaction uptick ‘shows a market finding its more natural level again’
The seasonally-adjusted UK resi property transaction count for May has come in at 89,700. That's up 1.5% on April, but 11.9% lower than in May 2015.