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Skype founder pumps £17m into P2P property finance platform
Skype founder Niklas Zennström has invested £17m into Christian Faes' peer-to-peer property lending firm LendInvest.
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In With A Shot: British Land to take on first ‘Instagrammer-in-Residence’
Clarges developer British Land has partnered up with IGersLondon, one of the city’s biggest Instagram communities, to launch a competition to find an in-house Instagrammer.
Top Surrey agents launch hybrid firm ‘in recognition of the changing face of estate agency’
Two of the Home Counties's most successful prime property agents have launched a new hybrid "estate agency hub" offering "the best of both" across the Surrey hills and Sussex borders
Amcorp bags Belgravia apartment block for £45m
Kilmuir House on Ebury Street is right opposite Berkeley's super-prime Ebury Square scheme
Caan-backed luxury developer Sons & Co in management buyout
Sons & Co, the high-end resi property developer set up by brothers Alexander and Christian Stocker, along with Simon Roberts, has gone out on its own. The
Number of single-family offices ‘has doubled’ since 2008
The number of single-family offices in the UK has more than doubled since the financial crash, according to new research
Leeming slams stamp duty surcharge; ‘the only losers will be tenants’
The incoming 3% stamp duty surcharge will fail to deter buy-to-let investors in most parts of the UK, according to one national agency, although it may succeed in making things harder for tenants.
Battersea Power Station masterplan tweak adds 400 ‘smaller, lower-priced’ homes
New proposals have gone in to switch out one of the three hotels planned at Battersea Power Station for another 400 resi units.
Wandsworth Council bans ‘dominating’ estate agents’ boards
Estate agents now need to apply for permission to put up advertising boards in Putney, Balham, Clapham Junction and Lavender Hill (maps of affected streets below), after the council waged war on what i…
150-fold rise in London homes listed on AirBnB as private landlords get in on the act
London's homeowners are going nuts for AirBnB. JLL has recorded a 150-fold rise in the number of resi properties listed on the home-lettings website over the past five years.
On Development: Who will be left exposed as the tide goes out?
A heady cocktail of high land prices, escalating construction costs and increasing pressure on sales values is challenging the viability of developments, says TowerEight's Paul Allen, and some firms c…
ELLE Decoration launches interiors consultancy with major Greenwich project
The UK edition of Hearst's ELLE Decoration is branching out, launching an interiors Style Consultancy that it says is "set to revolutionise the world of commercial property development".