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‘Selling Sunset’ brokerage eying London?
Oppenheim Group boss says London would be his first choice for a new international office, but the UK's real estate system makes 'no sense'
Zorin secures £200m for UK SME resi development plays
American hedge fund giant Avenue Capital has pledged £200m to Luke Townsend's Sir John Beckwith-backed specialist property lender, for property development and investment loans for SME housebuilders…
Chelsea penthouse sells for record price
Not everyone is upping sticks for country piles with acres of land...
In Pictures: ‘Transformative’ designs for Grosvenor Square create ‘a global blueprint for shared urban spaces’
Designs by Tonkin Liu promise a comprehensive revamp of London's second-largest garden square, enlarging the Mayfair garden by some 3,000 square metres and creating a template for urban landscaping projects…
Create Streets founder to lead the government’s new planning design body
Nicholas Boys Smith has been tasked with coming up with guidance to help planners come up with local design codes.
£35m price tag for mega-mansion on UK’s most expensive street
The leisure facilities at Five Ilchester Place 'rival some of the most luxurious boutique hotels in London, if not beyond', say agents...
Sales success for Octagon at flagship Surrey scheme
Luxury housebuilder’s first foray into the mainstream market is delivering results...
‘Exciting’ Canary Wharf office-to-resi opp seeks £17.5m
Bellerive House is being sold off with planning for 65 resi units.
RICS chief Bolton King steps down
Peter Bolton King has "semi-retired" from the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, after nearly nine years as Global Residential Director.
In Pictures: Apartments for rent in ‘London’s grandest vicarage’
Trio of residences are housed in a storied redbrick mansion next to the former St Mark's Church in Mayfair.
Upsizers boost larger home prices to a record high
Agreed sales of detached 4+ bedroom houses more than doubled from August 2019 to August 2020 (+104%), reports Rightmove. Sales of other three- or four-bedroom homes were up by 55%.
Ex-Knight Frank boss Lord Hay completes 1,000km solo charity trek
Andrew Hay, who retired from Knight Frank earlier this year after nearly 40 years with the firm, has completed a remarkable 1,000km solo trek along one of the most historic routes in Europe, raising over…