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Grosvenor unveils ‘inhabitable sculpture’ for Corbin & King’s new Mayfair hotel
Grosvenor has unveiled an "inhabitable sculpture" by Anthony Gormley that will be attached to Chris Corbin and Jeremy King's new hotel venture, The Beaumont, when it opens on Brown Hart Gardens in Mayfair…
Development Case Study: The Westminster office-to-resi scheme
Change of use may be all the rage in London, but how do you actually go about creating desirable, profitable units from an unloved office building?
Romancing the Stone: The houses built by love
Many a man has been driven to great lengths by love, and architecture is often a rewarding (though insatiable) mistress for such a passion, says Matthew Beckett...
Colliers buys central London property agency
Colliers International has acquired central London property consultancy H2SO.
Osborne gives BoE ‘weapons’ to guard against property market risks
"There is no immediate cause for alarm" about the property market, proclaimed George Osborne in last night's Mansion House speech, but "there are on the horizon things that should give us some causes…
Fine & Country makes a move on Russia
Fine & Country has stepped up the pace of its global domination masterplan, opening 16 new offices in the last five months - 15 in the UK - and planning an imminent move into Russia.
The Great British Super-Prime Takeover: Re-drawing London’s £10m+ map
“There are more British buyers in the super-prime bracket than at any time since the collapse of Lehman Brothers,” says Knight Frank's Head of London resi research Tom Bill, as the proportion of homegrown…
Johns&Co to open up in Providence Tower
New build agency Johns&Co has decided to set up shop in Ballymore's Providence Tower development.
John Morley
Really Useful acquisition for English Rose
Fitzrovia-based developer English Rose Estates has snapped up Andrew Lloyd Webber's former Covent Garden HQ for £20m.
London Vs New York City Vs Hong Kong: The costs of buying a prime property
Buying Agency Middleton Advisors has worked out that the cost of buying a £1.5m ish property in London has risen by 1% over the last five years, from 4.8% of the purchase price in 2009 to 5.8% in 2014.
Chinese buyers to become ‘biggest overseas force in London’s property market’ by 2016
Harrods Estates has signed an agency-wide partnership with Chinese mega-portal Juwai.com, as new figures are released on the scale of Chinese investment into the capital's property market.
Is it over for the ‘Safe Haven’ effect in Europe’s luxury markets?
“The critical question is whether prevailing wealth flows will alter now that the worst of the Eurozone crisis is over,” says Knight Frank's Head of International Resi Research Kate Everett-Allen,…