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Green light for record-breaking Knightsbridge mansion remodelling
2-8 Rutland Gate is set to become the >60,000 sq ft family home of a Chinese billionaire, following an epic nine-figure refurbishment by Squire & Partners and CC Land.
Agency reports triple sales success on Ilchester Place
There’s been ‘quite a bit of activity’ on the leafy Holland Park thoroughfare, named Britain’s most expensive street in 2019.
Inside Knightsbridge Gardens, tipped to be Prime Central London’s ‘stand-out build-to-rent scheme’
The Olayan Group and Chelsfield are delivering a set of 33 luxury rental apartments as part of their reworking of The Knightsbridge Estate.
Knight Frank upgrades global prime price forecasts again
Luxury property price inflation is likely to return to London with gusto next year, predicts the Knight Frank team.
Savills makes raft of London sales appointments
The agency has installed a new head of office in Victoria Park and new department heads in Battersea Park, Wandsworth and Richmond.
‘Welcome return of BTR’ boosts London’s new-build sector
Construction starts and sales rose in Q2, while construction completions were the highest in a couple of years, reports Molior.
UK Sotheby’s International Realty names new London sales heads
Shereen Malik-Akhtar has stepped up to lead the agency’s central London sales team, while ex-Aston Chase agent Lee Koffman will be heading things up across north and north west London.
‘The bounce-back is now underway’: Knight Frank revises rental market forecasts
After steep falls over the last year, the agency expects rents across the prime postcodes will recover to pre-pandemic levels by 2023.
Supply Pain: Who is responsible for delays on luxury resi projects?
With many super-prime schemes being thrown into chaos by supply chain problems, construction lawyer Alexander Jullienne looks at where the responsibility for delay rests, and what contractors charged with…
Ex-Foxtons agent assembles raft of PCL development projects
David Roberts set up Robelia earlier this year, with backing from North West-based entrepreneur Anil Pitalia.
Record deal surge ‘more of a blip than a signal of any real shift in market activity’ – LonRes
Transaction volumes in June were up by 140% on the five-year average, eclipsing the previous record set in March 2016 by a full 20%.