Location: London
Project Blue Monday: Construction work begins on Chelsea Barracks
After eight years of preparation, speculation, and even a royal intervention, it's been reported that construction work has finally begun at the 13-acre Chelsea Barracks site on Chelsea Bridge Road.
Please Mr Osborne: An estate agency’s Budget wishlist
Although the UK now has one of the fastest growing economies in the developed world, London-based estate agency Chestertons thinks that the Chancellor still has an embarrassingly large budget deficit…
INFOGRAPHIC: The richest real estate tycoons in emerging markets
The 2015 Forbes Billionaires List, which ranks those around the world earning more than $US 1 billion by their net worth, included a total of 157 real estate tycoons, 96 of whom were based in the Asia-Pacific…
Letter from MIPIM #4: Never forget to follow up, even with the longshots
It’s the last day and I see groups of men standing on street corners with suitcases, quietly waiting for their taxis to the airport.
Prime Property of the Week: Glass Act
Lansdowne Crescent, Notting Hill
£10.5m
Grosvenor recruits new Major Projects Director for London
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has appointed Simon Harding-Roots as Executive Director, Major Projects, London estate.
Apartment at former home of Sir John Everett Millais asks £4.95m
An apartment at 7 Palace Gate, the former home of painter and illustrator Sir John Everett Millais, has just come up for sale for a shade under £5m.
Cheap Rate: Low mortgage rates mean ‘there are deals to be made’ at the top end
"Borrowers can now snap up some of the lowest mortgage rates on record," says Hamptons, and it's the top-end of the market that's seeing the benefit.
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…
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,…
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.
Winkworth launches Corporate Services department
London's biggest estate agency, Winkworth, has launched a new centralised service for relocation agents and corporate clients searching across its 90-office UK and international network.