Location: London
Fine & Country jet-sets into Cannes
The haute monde of top agency Fine & Country will wave goodbye to the miserable British weather later, as they head off to the launch of a glamorous new office on the French Riviera.
Homes Work: office-to-resi conversions to be planning-free
Converting offices into residential units will no longer need planning permission if rumours are right about about "radical changes to the English planning system." Let the goldrush begin.
Grainger and APG launch £349m resi fund
Britain's biggest publicly-traded residential landlord and Europe's largest pension fund asset manager have joined forces to create one of the UK's biggest residential property investment funds.
Prime country house buyers left out in the cold
Reports of particularly slim pickings in the prime country house market have been filtering in of late.
Small to medium-sized building firms “on a knife-edge”
More gloom for the construction industry we're afraid.
Uncertain times for prime property
The ever-excellent Lonres Residential Review indulges in a spot of tealeaf reading to get a steer on what’s likely to happen in the prime property market over the coming 12 months.
Black Brick building up to a record year
No sign of a Blue Monday for buying agency Black Brick, which has reported a raft of new domestic and international client sign-ups already this month (interestingly, all owner-occupiers rather than investors)…
New buying agency Allen Wargent opens for business
Paddy Allen & Pete Wargent
We hear there's a new acquisition agency about to make waves in the prime residential scene...
Triple digit Singapore sales for Battersea Power Station
More than 100 units at London development Battersea Power Station were snapped up by Singaporean property buyers and investors in just one day, in what the developer and agency said were record levels…
Oaktree eyeing a Countrywide float
Britain's biggest estate agency network, Countrywide, is reported to be planning to go public once again.
Another new office for Winkworth
Winkworth is carrying on its January expansion with gusto, opening its second new office of the year in Beaconsfield.
Letter from the Home Counties
New developments and unconventional marketing ideas have been the keys to a barnstorming new year in the shires, says Julian Amos...