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Prime outer London market outpacing PCL – Knight Frank
Less than a week after releasing its predictions for the next five years (+24% UK-wide if you missed it), Knight Frank has been updating us on last month's activity in the UK, prime and rental markets.
Last call for Agents’s Mutual Gold standard as portal smashes targets
Agents' Mutual - the agent-owned challenger property portal - has issued a final call for estate agents to sign up to its "Gold" scheme, and now expects to smash its original target of 1,000 Gold members…
Candy nets Sugar Quay freehold from the fishmongers
Christian Candy’s CPC Group has secured the freehold to "the last big residential development site in the City of London", Sugar Quay.
Knight Frank expands resi research unit
Knight Frank has recruited a new Associate Partner to its Residential Research team.
Property Ombudsman launches new rules for buying agents
The Property Ombudsman has announced a new Code of Practice for property buying agents in the hope of bringing a semblance of proper professionalism to the industry.
Prime & super-prime markets to stall until 2015 – Abrahmsohn
Glentree boss Trevor Abrahmsohn looks back at the year that was and explains his predictions for 2014...
Firstly, what has 2013 served up for us so far?
Mayfair Capital closes resi fund
Mayfair Capital Investment Management has closed its London resi development finance fund, Mayfair Capital Residential 1 with £28m in the pot.
This closing - the second and final - brought in £12.
Fall in new seller asking prices and stock levels – Rightmove
Rightmove's November stats are out, with oodles of references to "asking" prices this time round.
“Surely we should stop bashing the rich” – B.Johnson
We should all be offering the super-rich "humble and hearty thanks," writes Boris Johnson in a characteristically philosophical piece for The Telegraph.
Househunter numbers up 25%
Another report has confirmed the escalation of demand for homes while stock levels continue to wallow.
Big guns square up over £250m Canadian High Commission
It sounds like there's a bunfight brewing over the £250m Canadian High Commission building on Grosvenor Square.
Countrywide scoops “IPO of the Year”
Countrywide plc has won the award for "Best IPO of the Year" at the 12th Annual Shares Awards, held last week at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London.