Location: London
Village enquiries soar as city dwellers ‘plan their escape’
The number of city residents contacting agents about village property jumped by 126% in June & July, reports Rightmove, while town enquiries were up by 68%...
FT: Could coronavirus spell the end of trendy east London?
Hackney Wick, Haggerston and Hoxton were all among the ten least-searched-for locations in London during lockdown, reports Antonia Cundy in this piece for the FT...
Post-lockdown bounce gives LSL cause for optimism
Property services group 'increasingly optimistic about market conditions' after strong trading in June & July; restarts marketing as focus turns to 'investing for future growth'
London leads national drop in rental price inflation
Rental price growth in London has tumbled as Covid-19 drives supply up and demand down, reports Zoopla. The portal expects rental growth outside the capital to halve to +1% by the end of this year.
Westminster submits plans for 758 new homes in Pimlico
Major-scale project is transforming the 1930s housing estate opposite Chelsea Barracks into a ‘mixed-tenure community’ with 758 new homes.
Well-preserved Arts & Crafts townhouse next to St James’s Park offered for £9.25m
20 Old Queen Street was once home to paper tycoon Henry G. Spicer.
Chestertons buys up Morgan Randall’s lettings business
31-branch Chestertons takes on well-known East London agency's staff and 'substantial' lettings book, but not its branches.
Super-prime Chelsea chapel conversion seeks £15m
Five-bed super-home is one of two created from an 1841 chapel on Fulham Road, originally designed by the great Victorian architect Edward Blore.
Strutt & Parker stands by 2020 property price forecasts, despite plunging transaction numbers
Average UK house prices are likely to drop by anything from 1% to 7% this year, predicts Strutt & Parker - although the short-term impact "could be much gloomier" in some parts of Prime Central London.
Interior designer in £1m spat over super-prime Notting Hill townhouse revamp
High society design & build firm Lucinda Sanford Ltd is embroiled in a high-stakes High Court legal dispute with aristocratic property owner Lord Russell over the £4m refurbishment of a super-prime home…
£16m price tag for rare upper-floor unit at The Knightsbridge
Top-end design firm 1508 has carried out a full-scale refurb of the eighth floor four-bed at the game-changing scheme between Harrods and the Mandarin Oriental...
Post-lockdown bargain-hunters warned of ‘stiff competition’
'For now, prices are heading in one direction', says Knight Frank