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Canaletto sales “significantly ahead of schedule”
Orion Capital has pushed up the next phase release date for its UNStudio-designed Canaletto development next to the City Road Basin, after being happily surprised by early sales numbers.
New Chair for Estate Agency Foundation
Peter Knight is taking over from Bill McClintock as Chairman of the Estate Agency Foundation (EAF), which does good works trying to combat the causes of homelessness.
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Super-sewer could render some apartments “unsellable” – Battersea Power Station
The firm behind the £8bn transformation of Battersea Power Station has joined the ranks of businesses and residents kicking up a stink over plans for the new Thames "super-sewer".
Interior Monologue: Tales from the design front line
Alec Watt experiences the international appetite for London property first-hand and attends possibly the best client meeting in the world...
Chinese investors “frantic” to buy in London
London property "is 8% cheaper than it was six years ago" for Chinese buyers thanks to the strength of the Renminbi, says WA Ellis in a new report on South East Asian buyers in the capital.
“Strongest ever start to a new year” – Rightmove
Average asking prices have shot up by 1% in the "the largest ever January rise in the price of property coming to market," according to Rightmove.
December spurt takes prices up by 8.4% in 2013
House prices across the UK rose by 8.4% last year after a +1.4% December spurt, according to the latest from Knight Frank.
London under-performed the wider country, posting a 7.5% price increase (+0.
Google Glass gets a look in on property videos
Aston Chase has jumped on the techno-wagon, joining up with property video company VistaBee to produce a film of a £9m St John's Wood penthouse using Google Glass.
Black Brick closes in on £0.5bn milestone
It's not easy to find out just how much business the UK's top buying agencies are doing these days.
Native Land announces new Southbank HQ
It sounds like Native Land has decided to up sticks and shift operations from Mayfair to the Southbank.
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Other Side of the Tax: Lessons from Hong Kong
Taxing the rich can have a devastating effect on the property market; just look at what's happening in Hong Kong, says our resident doer upper Alan Page.
“Utterly nuts” to slam door on foreign investors – BoJo
Mayor of London Boris Johnson has thrown his weight behind the capital's foreign buyers, warning luminaries at last night's Mansion House London Government Dinner that we'd be "utterly nuts" to "slam the…