Location: London
English National Ballet names new home after property developer
English National Ballet’s new HQ at London City Island is to be named the Mulryan Centre for Dance, after the family of Ballymore chief Sean Mulryan.
Century completes £5.5m loan on Chelsea mansion
Prime resi bridging lender reports bumper week of deals in spite of some ‘challenging’ conditions.
International buyer picks up £14.25m Mayfair apartment (and just in time)
Off-market super-prime deal tucked away on the last day before the stamp duty hike.
London’s super-prime lettings market surges
Another agency is reporting a significant pick-up in top-end rental activity.
Chestertons names new Head of Sales
Cory Askew has been promoted from Central London Area Director to Head of Sales.
Agency ranks best prime postcodes for ‘snagging a relative bargain’
WC1H in Bloomsbury offers the ‘biggest property price bargain’, according to Benham & Reeves.
Prime Central London ‘has now bottomed out’ – Savills
Back to work plans are boosting demand for town and city homes, says Savills, but the country house and coastal property markets are still riding high.
Ranked: London’s ten most expensive streets of 2020
Upper Phillimore Gardens in Kensington has been named London's most expensive address of last year, with a median sold price in 2020 of £28 million.
Hip to be square: On the growing demand for London’s communal gardens
PCL experts explain how shared spaces became seriously hot property.
The ‘escape to the country’ trend has ‘evolved to a more urban focus’
“The search for space is far from over but the trend has a more urban flavour now,” says Knight Frank research chief Tom Bill.
FT: What the stamp duty charge for overseas buyers means for London
In this piece for the Financial Times, George Hammond speaks to buyers, agencies and analysts about the potential impacts of the incoming 2% surcharge for non-residents.
Ex-Knight Franker’s new consultancy off to a flyer with £150m mega-deal
Josh Devey’s newly-formed Brindley Consultants has brokered one of the biggest property deals of the year so far.