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Store Credit: The rise of luxury shop-top living in London
Living above commercial units can command a price premium, claims Mayfair estate agent Wetherell, as long as the brand downstairs is right.
Doing a Grosvenor: The Making of Mayfair’s Mount Street
How do you reposition a sleepy backwater into one of the world's top luxury destinations?
£1m+ sales jump by 15% – Land Reg
The average house price across England and Wales nudged up by 0.6% in December to take the annual rate growth to 6%, according to the latest batch of data from the Land Registry.
Local Mansions? What price is a top 2.5% home around the country?
Lord Mandelson has come out swinging against Labour's proposed mansion tax on homes worth over £2m, arguing that it's "crude" and throwing his dark powers behind the idea of overhauling council tax as…
Pricey Comparison: The world’s most unaffordable property markets
Hong Kong is the world's least affordable place to buy a home - with median house prices coming in at 17 times the median income - while the UK's overall multiple is a - relatively - benign 4.7.
Luxury projects put London at the top of the global construction cost league
A preponderance of luxury resi developments has made central London the most expensive place to build in the world, according to a new report, as the capital's high-end homes market is "reaching a capacity…
New York’s ten ’emptiest’ skyscrapers revealed
The Executive Plaza has been labelled "The Emptiest Skyscraper in New York City" after official figures showed that 74% of the owners actually live elsewhere.
Deconstructed: A super-prime family home in Hampstead
Regal Homes' take on the Hampstead family home - a £16m eight bedroom affair - checks an awful lot of boxes.
Back to School: Ten of 2015’s hottest new instructions so far
One week in and we're already seeing some absolute stonkers hitting the market. Here's ten of the best...
1. Chesterfield Street, Mayfair
£14,000,000
PCL prices down 4% in Q4 as SDLT changes ‘subdue sentiment’
Savills has summed up 2014 as "a year of two halves" in the capital's prime resi market, with prices rising by +4.9% in the first six months before dropping off by -2.2%.
Double digit growth for residential auction action
The number of residential lots offered and sold at auction didn't move by a huge amount last year, but the value raised by the gavel soared by over 14%.
The quantity of lots nudged up by 1.
New York & London prime rents tipped to outperform in 2015
A sluggish global economy kept a lid on prime rents around the world last year, but New York and London should see values rise in 2015, according to Knight Frank's latest check.