Location: London
Tight supply bolsters resi development land values
"Housebuilders are increasingly competing for well-priced sites in optimal locations," says Knight Frank, but many vendors continue to wait for more political certainty
Knight Frank trials ZPG listings after five-year hiatus
High-end agency makes a return to Zoopla and Primelocation after cutting ties in 2014 over the launch of challenger portal OnTheMarket...
South Ken double penthouse development opp pitched at nearly £3m
Developers are being offered the chance to build two substantial apartments above royal-approved grocer Partridges on the corner of Queens Gate Terrace and Gloucester Road...
DAMAC chief: ‘I see 2019 as a year of opportunity in London’
Current uncertainties around Brexit offer just the right conditions to strike great property deals, says billionaire Emirati developer Hussain Sajwani...
‘Demand for rental properties across London is strong & momentum is building’ – Foxtons
23% more tenants registered with the London estate agency in the first half of this year compared to last, but the firm listed 6% fewer homes to rent...
Mapped: Average rental & sold prices across prime London this year
Latest visual from LonRes shows the spread of average rental prices per week and sold prices per square foot during H1 2019
Cutting Stamp Duty ‘could boost transactions by 40% and tax revenues by £9.8bn’
According to buying agency Ludgrove's workings, a 36% reduction in Stamp Duty rates across the board would likely lead to 40% additional transactions in England per annum, in turn generating an extra £1.
Why record numbers of home buyers are heading back to the capital’s central zones
"The tide is turning" in central London, reports journalist Anna White in The Evening Standard.
Ex-Knight Frank buying agent launches new consultancy
Uncertain market conditions in the capital are exposing 'huge opportunities', says former TBS buying consultant Thea Carroll, who has decided to launch a new acquisition firm under her own name...
Knight Frank ‘significantly bolsters’ London China team with series of new hires
Lili Zhang has been recruited from Savills to run Knight Frank's enlarged and restructured residential China Desk in London
Sales rise in PCL as buyers make their move
Transaction volumes in the capital's most expensive neighbourhoods were up by 3% in Q2, compared to last year, but buyers remain 'scarce' across the rest of the prime postcodes...
New lets fall by 12% across the prime postcodes as tenants stay put
Rental transactions in some areas of London were down by as much as 20% in Q2, reports LonRes, citing high renewal rates as a key factor...