Location: London
Poacher Turned Gamekeeper: Do great selling agents make great buying agents?
How easy is it to be good at both selling and buying? Do years of experience as an estate agent guarantee you’ll be successful in acquisitions? We asked two top buying agents (and former estate agents) t…
Letter from the Home Counties: The bespoke mansion
Darren Walter launches an unusual £8m proposition in deepest Surrey...
Redrow snaps up former police station for resi conversion
Redrow London has just acquired a Grade II listed former police station in north west London, which it plans to transform into a significant new resi scheme
Wrong Side of the Tax: How SDLT reshaped London’s prime property market
Believe it or not, it's been two whole years since the stamp duty levied on properties over £2m was ramped up to the eye-watering 7% mark.
Foreign investment quota plans rejected in House of Lords
A controversial proposal to introduce a limit on overseas property sales was unceremoniously shot down in the House of Lords last week
Detailed plans approved for Earls Court Village and Empress State Building
Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham planners have given the first detailed all-clears to Capco's plans for Earls Court
Fast-track planning court opens its doors
The first hearings at the UK's new specialist 'Planning Court' are getting underway today
Made in Fulham: TV ‘Pardy Pad’ hits the market
The Made In Chelsea ‘boys house’ in..erm...Parsons Green has just been put up for sale for a cool £1.4m.
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London’s market becomes ‘less abnormal’ as the ripple returns
London's property market is becoming 'less abnormal' says Knight Frank, as prime central prices rise at a more moderate level, and are out-performed by the mainstream market and prime fringes as the ripple…
Varsity Blues: Oxford and Cambridge bow to the river
Cambridge's property market has thrashed Oxford's by a good length over the past year, says Knight Frank in a Boat Race-themed bit of research.
Cambridgeshire prices have put in a strong +7
LAPADA Art & Antiques Fair 2014: 24-28 September, Berkeley Square
Over 100 arty art and antique mongers will be returning to Berkeley Square for the sixth LAPADA Fair in September
Prime Property of the Week: Lateral Linking
Lennox Gardens, Knightsbridge, London
£27m
We all know first floor flats are the ones to go for in period buildings. It's that extra volume you get with the high ceilings. And the natural light.