Location: London
New sales boss at Knight Frank Islington
Chelsea Whelan has moved over from the agency’s Notting Hill branch to head up the recently relocated operation on Upper Street
Talking Heads: On Russia sanctions & the London property market
Two weeks on, we asked prime property insiders - including those who specialise in Russian clients - about what effect anti-war sanctions are really having on the London property market, and how their…
Forbes: A guide to all the outrageous mansions and estates owned by sanctioned Russian billionaires
Investigation links ‘at least 36’ mansions, villas and luxury apartments - worth a combined $1.2bn - with ten targeted oligarchs, including some of England’s finest private homes…
City offices protected from automatic resi conversion
New Article 4 Direction obtained amid concerns over ‘harm to the primary business function of the City’
New lettings head at Knight Frank South Kensington
Mark Batty has moved over to lead the team at the branch on Old Brompton Rd, 12 years after joining the firm from Hamptons International
Savills raises £52mn in biggest March auction since 2015
One lot received more than 70 bids in 45 seconds
Weekly Showcase: Ten featured prime resi listings
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In Pictures: London’s best new home extensions & improvements
15 projects have been shortlisted for this year's Don’t Move, Improve! competition, which celebrates London's best and most innovative new home extensions and improvements.
Pre-pandemic stability beckons for UK property market as supply levels finally pick up
New listings have been running at 5% above the five-year average in 2022 so far, reports Zoopla, but demand is still at near-record levels - half of all homes where sales were agreed were snapped up within…
In Pictures: Linton Group & KSR Architects complete rare multi-unit new-build scheme in historic Hampstead Village
The site of a former nurses’ home has been redeveloped into 17 new apartments following a six-year planning process
Required Reading: Lifting the secrecy behind offshore companies
Julie Howard explains how the new rules around overseas entities will work in practice, and why the idea of hiding behind asset holding vehicles is becoming a thing of the past
Westminster’s important new building rules ‘place sustainability at the heart of the built environment’
New guidance for property developers "will ensure the highest possible proportion of development requiring planning permission achieves net zero carbon emissions," says Westminster Councillor Matthew Green.