Location: London
Post-Christmas divorces to ‘jump start’ 2016 lettings market
A recovery is on the cards for London's rental market, according to estate agency Marsh & Parsons
Encourage estate owners to release land for affordable homes – RICS
The owners of England's 5,000 biggest country estates should be giving up some of their land to make way for more affordable housing, the RICS has suggested.
Grand Registry: The biggest recorded transactions of 2015
October and November saw another couple of mega-deals added to 2015's official ledger of transactions, although as we all know, most of the really big sales go on behind closed doors...
Planning nod for rare new-build resi scheme in Bayswater
34 Palace Court project designed by PDP London
Crystal Balls 2016: Property market forecasts from the key residential research units
As another new year looms large, the residential industry’s leading pundits and analysts are unanimous about one thing: the property market is fragmenting, with micro-markets emerging in various locations a…
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.