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Lutti gets the go-ahead for £17m Great Portland Street scheme
Residential design / development firm Lutti has won planning permission for a mixed-use scheme with eight apartments on Great Portland Street, W1.
Qatari Diar & Canary Wharf Group unveil next phase of Southbank Place
Canary Wharf Group and Qatari Diar are gearing up to launch the next tranche of units at Southbank Place, their £1.3 billion transformation of the 5.2-acre Shell Centre site.
UK stamp duty revenues suffer as Osborne throttles the golden goose
With the Institute for Fiscal Studies now warning that the Government will struggle to meet its target of balancing the books by 2019-20, Knight Frank has taken a proper look at how the new stamp duty…
Record results for Redrow after ‘shift away from high-priced central London apartments’
Redrow has posted a record set of half-yearly results after high-tailing it out of the central London market.
Redrow's super-prime Connaught Place scheme, launched in June last year
Property crowdfunder recruits marketing VP
Zoopla-backer-backed property crowdfunding platform Property Partner has hired a Vice President of Marketing from a travel company.
Coldwell Banker amps up the search for 100 UK franchisees
High-end American real estate juggernaut Coldwell Banker is officially rolling into Blighty in just a few weeks' time, and is already souping up its search for additional franchisees to "become an estate…
Retirement lender launches specialist HNW equity release service
Bower Retirement has a launched a specialist arm - which it's claiming as an industry first - to deal with demand for high net worth equity release, focusing on £1m+ mortgage-free homes.
Investor buys up entire development in Waterloo
A Chinese investor has swooped on a luxury mixed-use scheme in London's Waterloo, picking up all nine resi units and two floors of commercial space for £15m.
Hands Off Buy-to-Let: Has the BoE been reading too many Daily Mail headlines?
The vast majority of buy-to-let investors are in for the long term, are big net contributors to both the national and local economies, and are right to feel a somewhat opportunist target, says Ed Mead...
Super-prime Kensington de-conversion project asks £18.85m
An unusual opportunity has come up to create a chunky residence on the hallowed Phillimore Estate in Kensington.
Identity Crisis: Property fraud and how to protect against it
Seeing as you can never be too careful, here's legal eagle Ed Allan with a run-through of the most common types of property fraud and some effective preventative measures...
Curtain Up: £750m Shoreditch scheme to transform ‘lost’ Shakespearean site
The curtain has been raised on a showstopping £750m regeneration project in London's Shoreditch, centred around the most important Shakespeare heritage project in the UK for almost 20 years.