Location: London
London Square buys Parsons Green office-to-resi site
Developer London Square has bought pretty niftily-located site at 100 New Kings Road in Parsons Green with plans to turn the office block into 25 residential units.
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Brand & Deliver: Global brand licensing plans for Candy & Candy
Uber-developer Candy & Candy has decided to roll out its brand around the world through a series of licensing agreements.
Should we be applying punitive taxes to empty homes?
Rather than complaining and propagating the confiscation of empty homes, commentators should be applying their energies to making the planning process efficient, less political and more productive, says…
Soil & Trouble: Subterranean Development & The Law
Icebergs; Mega-basements; Batcaves; There's no shortage of shouty opinions on London's basement bonanza.
Rental Breakdown: What tenants want
Affordability, unsurprisingly, is top of tenants' reasons for renting, but flexibility is a pretty important factor, according to to a new report from Savills and YouGov that comes just a few days after…
There IS a property bubble brewing in London – EY
London’s housing market is "beginning to show signs of ‘bubble-like conditions’, while the rest of the UK has returned to normality," according to an EY ITEM Club special report on housing, as income…
Third of mansions on Billionaires’ Row “standing empty”
Edward Snowden News, or The Guardian as it used to be known, has been poking around on The Bishops Avenue in North London and discovered that quite a few of the mansions along there aren't actually being…
Charity Begins with Homes: Estate Agents raised £13m for good causes in 2013
Estate agents - not normally perceived as the most generous of souls by the public - handed over £13m to good causes last year, and plan to give even more - an extra 12%, bringing the total to £14.
Planning nod for Ergon House demolition
St Edward Homes, Berkeley Group’s JV with Prudential's M&G Real Estate, has bagged planning consent to build 161 new apartments in two blocks on Horseferry Road and Millbank in the heart of SW1's Smith…
PRS has doubled in size in 14 years, and returned 11.3% in 2013 – Knight Frank
The UK’s private rented sector (PRS) has more than doubled in size in the last 14 years, says Knight Frank as it turns its research heft to the lettings market, producing a new index that tracks that…
Locking Good: £230m refinancing deal for Camden Lock Village
A massive refinancing deal has been agreed between the owners of "Camden Lock Village" and a Japanese investment bank, signalling the next stage of the area's wholesale redevelopment.
London’s new home registrations climb 60% to highest ever level
The number of new homes being registered in the capital has hit its highest level since records began over 26 years ago, according to the National House Building Council's latest figures.