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Prime Property of the Week: Pony Up
The Manton Estate, Wiltshire
£26m (OIEO)
Stock & Shares: Gauging London’s shifting supply levels
A 43% increase in Chelsea, but a 6% drop in South Ken? As Lonres releases its Spring Review, the research team explains what's really going on with those supply levels in central London...
Flat Cap: What are the implications of Labour’s rent control ideas?
Ed Miliband's taken on the lettings industry.
Top three risks to the central London property market: Mansion Tax, interest rate rises & over-inflated prices
The results of the Lonres Spring Agents Survey are in, and they're probably best described as "mixed". There's lots to digest as usual, so let's get amongst it.
The Story of Mayfair: Wetherell writes the book
People sometimes say that self-proclaimed Mayfair Guru Peter Wetherell wrote the book on prime W1 property; well now he literally has.
Three Little Words… that add up to 40% to a property’s value
These are always fun. Mayfair agent Wetherell has been trawling the archives again to see what place names do to property prices.
‘Notorious’ Rockwood Estate up for auction
The Rockwood Estate - a 360-acre swathe of Surrey including an eleven-bedroom mansion reported to have once been the home of Benazir Bhutto - has been listed for public auction this summer.
Q1 sales boom for Ladbroke Grove, Westbourne Grove and Bayswater
W11-based outfit Crayson has also been totting up the scores from Q1 and reckons ppsf values achieved so far in 2014 across its enviable K&C patch are 14.3% above where they were a year ago.
Souper Prime: How air pollution shaped London’s property hotspots
What on earth has smog got to do with the capital's property market in 2014? Quite a lot actually, says Winkworth's CEO Dominic Agace...
A real pea souper in Trafalgar Square during WW1
BPF Chief announces retirement
Liz Peace, Chief Executive of the British Property Federation, has decided to call it a day after 12 years at the helm.
Transaction levels soar as million-plus market jumps by 61%
The number of £1m+ deals has rocketed by 61% as total sales volumes stand 46% up on last year's level, according to the latest from the Land Registry.
Private Finance and Carter Jonas announce tie-up
Mortgage broker Private Finance and property consultancy Carter Jonas have shaken hands on a formal 'Introducer Agreement'.