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Crystal Balls 2016: Prime property pundits’ predictions for the year ahead
It's been a tough 12 months for the high-value residential property industry, with a General Election cleaving the year in two, fallout from a major overhaul of the stamp duty system quashing activity, a…
All We Want For Christmas: Deconstructing the perfect festive house
Everyone has their own idea of what makes the ideal Christmas pad, but in our book you need an impressive hallway for receiving guests, a proper cook's kitchen, a bar serving top-notch tipples, an epic d…
Away They All Flue: On the chimneys of England
As Santa Claus prepares to take to the skies tomorrow evening, buying agent Mark Crampton takes a look at some of country's most distinctive chimney architecture, but which is the most suitable for del…
Allsop closes 2015 with bumper Christmas sale
Allsop has closed out 2015 with a £68.4m sale, taking the total amount of resi sold via the auction house this year to over £457m.
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Osborne ‘in for a shock’ when 2015’s stamp duty receipts are counted up – Chestertons
George Osborne is "burying his head in the sand" by ignoring industry calls to review last year’s changes to Stamp Duty and will "likely be in for a shock" when 2015's final receipts are added up, Chestertons h…
Prime global rents post weakest performance in five years
Knight Frank has recorded a 0.9% fall in prime global rents in the year to September, a stark contrast to the 3.4% rise seen a couple of years ago
Strutt & Parker hires country specialists from Knight Frank & Savills
Former Knight Frank Partner James Heron has joined Strutt & Parker's Ascot and Sunningdale branch.
Prime London prices end the year up 0.5% but Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Mayfair take a tumble
Prime London property prices dipped by -0.8% in Q4, reports Savills, taking the annual movement to +0.5%.
Georgian Group Architectural Awards 2015: The Winners
The restoration of Belmont House in Lyme Regis, where John Fowles wrote The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Quinlan and Francis Terry Architects' remarkable Kilboy (below), and Capability Brown’s landscape at …
Tributes paid to ‘visionary’ developer Harry Hyams
The property world has been paying tribute to one of Britain's most influential developers, Harry Hyams, who sadly passed away at the weekend aged 87.
Case Study: A classically-themed reinvention on Chesham Place
Behind the scenes of a highly successful project in Belgravia
Total value of PCL sales plummets by a quarter
The combined value of the houses and flats sold in prime central London fell by nearly 25% this year, according to new analysis by LonRes.