Location: London
Client-Side: The quest for an honest profit in prime(ish) London
In the third installment of Alan Page's "Do-Er Upper Diary", the serial renovator and buying-agent-turned-client continues his search for a property with the x-factor...
Christmas is a cracking time for deals
Will it be a sleepy slow-down or a mad panic rush for the prime property market this festive season, asks Camilla Dell...
December is a funny month.
New partner for Strutt country
Luke Morgan, formerly of Knight Frank's The Buying Solution, has joined Strutt & Parker's country department as a national partner at its offices in Mayfair, London.
Ups and downs for global house prices in 2012
The world's housing markets posted mixed signals during the full year to Q3 2012, according to the latest survey of global house price trends. The bad news is strongly concentrated in Europe.
Cadogan Estate appoints former Chief Executive of Land Securities
The Cadogan Estate has announced the appointment of Francis Salway as a Non-Executive Director, with effect from December 2012.
Crystal balls: prices will be up 20% by 2018
Five years may be a long time, but Chesterton Humberts has taken a punt and projected that total price growth in London, the South East, East Anglia and South West will be pushing 20% by then (compared…
Cordea Savills’s resi fund starts spending
Cordea Savills's first London Residential Development Fund has started buying, spending £40m on two adjacent properties in Chelsea.
London under threat from high-rise developments
Ed Vaisey, the architecture and heritage minister, is "very worried" about the impact that high-rise developments on the South Bank will have on London's historic landscape and buildings, including the…
‘Tis the season to be jolly – £250m of country sales in a month for Knight Frank
With only a couple of weeks left until the property world hangs up its brogues for another year, there's been somewhat of a pre-Christmas rush in Knight Frank’s Country Division, with over £250m worth…
Ronson gets Riverwalk SW1 underway
London property investment vehicle Ronson Capital Partners has just confirmed the start of development of Riverwalk, SW1, its high-spec 113-unit waterfront resi project in Westminster.
Berkeley posts whopping results
Profits at "Britain's best housebuilder," Berkeley Group, have rocketed by over 40% over the last six months, whilst the Group's revenues have ballooned by nearly 70% to £686m, according to the company's…
Client-side: What’s a buying agent, they guffaw
In the second of who-knows-how-many parts, serial renovator and buying-agent-turned-client Alan Page gets some professional help (via Twitter)
Like most men, I'm somewhat averse to asking for help.