Location: London
Dukelease brews up sales in Covent Garden
As developer Dukelease adds the finishing touches to its boutique 29-unit Hop House scheme in Covent Garden, it's reporting that nearly all of the apartments have been sold off-plan.
Listed status bid for Hyde Park Barracks
The Twentieth Century Society has submitted a listing application for Hyde Park Barracks to prevent the demolition of what it calls "a truly remarkable, innovative and singular group of buildings".
Required Reading: Stamp Duty Reform and the Prime London Market
The long-criticised slab rate system for Stamp Duty Land Tax (SDLT) was abolished in the Autumn Statement in December 2014, seeking to bring fairness to property purchase costs and benefiting 98% of homebuyers.
Government outlines London’s short-term lettings shake-up
The government has been laying out its plans to ditch the "confusing" restrictions on short-terms lets in the capital.
Historic England announces first Chief Exec
Duncan Wilson has been named as the first Chief Executive of Historic England, the government-operated arm of what is, until April, English Heritage.
Westminster’s voter-free developments
Some of prime central London's higher-end residential blocks have no registered voters living in them at all, trumpet Westminster's Labour councillors.
Property investors ‘are going to have to work harder’ for high returns this year
While "the macro-economic story for the UK will remain benign" for the next year or so, prime residential property markets are in for a fairly subdued - but still positive - year, says Savills.
Chestertons calls off the £50m search for a buyer
Seven months after hanging out the for sale sign, Chestertons has called off the search for a buyer for the agency.
The Big Freeze: Nathalie Hirst on waiting for the top of the market to thaw
For those with nerves of steel and an iron constitution, it's a good time to take a punt, says top buying agent Nathalie Hirst...
The £45m fixer-upper: ‘Historic and palatial’ Swakeleys House hits the market
Swakeleys House, an epic Grade I listed Jacobean manor in Ickenham (Zone Six; within the M25), has hit the market for resi restoration with a £45m price tag.
£250m Teddington Studios scheme sold to Singaporean developer
Just three months after planning was given to turn one of the UK's best-known film studios into a £250m resi scheme, a buyer has been found in the shape of a listed Singaporean developer with a billionaire…
Hedge funds begin to cash-in on a falling London property market
"Several hedge funds have taken out short positions, essentially bets that a company’s share price will fall, against estate agents Foxtons and Savills, along with property portal Zoopla, and housebuilder…