Location: International
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.
Britain’s 50 most historic streets
House historian Melanie Backe-Hansen has compiled a list of the 50 most historically-important streets in Britain and Ireland, from Roman roads to Georgian crescents; street markets to village thoroughfares.
“Resilient” prime market drives brisk few months for Savills
Savills sounded a chirpy note with the release of its Interim Management Statement yesterday.
Trading Up: Ryan’s Canary Wharf mega-tower to be Europe’s tallest resi?
Developers are jostling to take the "Europe's tallest resi tower" title: Manchester's 554ft Beetham Tower, the incumbent, was all set to be knocked off the pinnacle by Dalian Wanda's One Nine Elms scheme…
New Head of Design for Morpheus
Developer Morpheus has seriously bolstered its design offering with the appointment of former Candy & Candy project manager Charu Gandhi.
Out With the New (World): Global ultra-prime property market slowing
The top-top end of the world's resi property market is calming down, growing more slowly in "new world" destinations as the "old world" takes the mantle for market growth on the back of perceived safe…
Global luxury property prices stall
It's time to go macro for a bit. Knight Frank has taken its quarterly check-up of 27 prime markets around the globe and reckons price growth has started to stall.
Here's the key findings:
Artists in Residence: Integrating contemporary art into new developments
Londonewcastle's Robert Soning on finding the right space and the importance of his firm's latest acquisition...
UK has highest property tax rate in the developed world: The full story
Making property taxes fair both politically and economically is no simple task; should tax aim to reduce housing demand or increase housing supply?
Policy Exchange's comprehensive "Taxing Issues?
50% of all prime London homes now worth over £1m – Marsh & Parsons
Over half of the homes in London's prime postcodes are now worth more than a million quid, according to Marsh & Parsons' latest calculations.
That's a rise of 8% on this time last year and 6% since January.
Chesterton Global announces Singapore JV
Chesterton Global, parent company of UK agency Chesterton Humberts, has announced a joint venture in Singapore to "pave the way" for future expansion into Asia.
Green Property & Dalian Wanda complete One Nine Elms deal
Green Property's sale of the epic One Nine Elms scheme to Chinese conglomerate Dalian Wanda Group has been completed.