Location: Europe
Last of the iceberg houses? Westminster approves billionaire Bertarelli’s Belgravia mega-basement
Kirsty Bertarelli - Britain's richest woman, a songwriter and a former Miss UK - has won planning permission to dig out a two-storey basement underneath her Belgravia mews house "to make it more conducive …
Grosvenor recruits new Major Projects Director for London
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has appointed Simon Harding-Roots as Executive Director, Major Projects, London estate.
Short supply puts prices back on the rise – except in London
London was the only place in the UK where more surveyors reported price drops than rises in February, with price increases across the rest of the country re-emerging due to the demand supply imbalance, ac…
Letter from MIPIM #3: CBA (Can’t Be Arsed)
Forced to wake up at the ungodly hour of 8am to attend a breakfast I wonder what sort of sadist thinks that 9am on the Thursday of MIPIM is an acceptable start time. I tweet this
Letter from MIPIM #2: How to Play Real Estate Blind Date
LinkedIn has been a lifesaver in this maelstrom of real estate Blind Date, says Nicky Richmond...
Day two and I'm making notes
The rise of resi, Asia’s ‘flight to safety’ and other global real estate megatrends
Residential property is "moving out of the public or semi-public sector and specialist investor/developer ambit, and into the mainstream," and the movement of capital from East to West is likely to remain t…
Letter from MIPIM #1: A Different Time
Nicky Richmond reports back from her nineteenth MIPIM, where things seem very different to how they were in 1996...
Just a single glance at the overstuffed diary makes me feel a little anxious.
Big spenders, high flyers and real estate buyers: The Wealth Report 2015
The ranks of the global super-rich are growing, Knight Frank tells us in its flagship annual report, and the UK is playing Mecca to the money - for now
Luxury resi agency John Taylor opens up in Madrid
Top-end real estate brand John Taylor has opened up a new office on Madrid's "Golden Mile".
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Couture Thing: Mayfair mansion designed for Gianni Versace asks £15m
A Grade II listed Charles Street mansion developed with the late fashion designer Gianni Versace in mind has just hit the market with a £15m price tag.
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Here Be Mansions: The top 25 locations for £2m homes
It's no surprise that prime central London is home to the majority of £2m+ residences - RBKC and Westminster account for 46% of the England and Wales total, says Knight Frank - but what about those ho…
Sloane Gardens resi-to-hotel conversion gets A-list Parisian twist
The Cadogan Estate has brought in Parisian celebrity hotelier Jean-Louis Costes, the man behind Hotel Costes on Rue St Honoré, to add some chic to a new hotel project at One Sloane Gardens.