Location: London
Prime Property of the Week: Pony Up
The Manton Estate, Wiltshire
£26m (OIEO)
Hamptons goes big on cab-vertising
Hamptons International has decided to head down the branded taxi route this year, wrapping more than fifty 'Sherbet Dabs' as part of its new marketing campaign.
Been busy tonight?
26 promotions at Carter Jonas (including five new Group Partners)
What a week for Carter Jonas.
Fund opens London super-prime property to SIPP investors
Luxury developer Fenton Whelan and financial outfit Vanbrugh Prime Property have opened up a their specialist top-of-the-top-end London fund to punters with just £60,000 to invest - making it, they…
Souper Prime: How air pollution shaped London’s property hotspots
What on earth has smog got to do with the capital's property market in 2014? Quite a lot actually, says Winkworth's CEO Dominic Agace...
A real pea souper in Trafalgar Square during WW1
Q1 sales boom for Ladbroke Grove, Westbourne Grove and Bayswater
W11-based outfit Crayson has also been totting up the scores from Q1 and reckons ppsf values achieved so far in 2014 across its enviable K&C patch are 14.3% above where they were a year ago.
Three Little Words… that add up to 40% to a property’s value
These are always fun. Mayfair agent Wetherell has been trawling the archives again to see what place names do to property prices.
The Story of Mayfair: Wetherell writes the book
People sometimes say that self-proclaimed Mayfair Guru Peter Wetherell wrote the book on prime W1 property; well now he literally has.
Top three risks to the central London property market: Mansion Tax, interest rate rises & over-inflated prices
The results of the Lonres Spring Agents Survey are in, and they're probably best described as "mixed". There's lots to digest as usual, so let's get amongst it.
Flat Cap: What are the implications of Labour’s rent control ideas?
Ed Miliband's taken on the lettings industry.
‘Exceptional’ Q1 for PCL’s £2m+ sales market
834 homes were sold in prime central London in Q1, according to Strutt & Parker. That's an 8.3% increase on the quarterly average for the last ten years.
Historic number and values of sales in PCL
Grade I National Trust mansion up for rent in Shropshire
One of the most important houses in Shropshire - the Grade I-listed, National Trust-owned Morville Hall - has come up for rent at just £2,000 a week.