Location: London
Prime rents dip in the Home Counties as stock levels rise
Prime rents across the Home Counties are now 0.8% lower than they were a year ago, after dropping by 0.
More architects scale back London operations
A few weeks after it was reported that top practices Make, Sheppard Robson and AL_A were shedding staff, two more firms appear to be scaling back citing post-Brexit uncertainty.
Billionaire population grows, but their share of world wealth ownership slips
There are more billionaires tooling around the globe than ever before, according to specialist researchers at Wealth-X, but the proportion of the world owned by these richest-of-the-rich individuals slipped…
Cooling measures spread as global prime property price growth escalates
Vancouver is the latest global real estate hotspot looking to curb property price inflation (following the lead of Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and more), bringing in a really quite chunky 15% levy…
‘Intricate’ five-year project delivers brand new £19.5m Mayfair mansion
Notting Hill-based Wolff Architects was commissioned to redevelop 32 South Street on behalf of a private client in 2011
Hill hires Savills man to lead major acquisition drive
Housebuilder Hill has appointed a well-known name as Head of Strategic Land as it looks to expand into new territories.
Caution and opportunism collide in post-Brexit PCL
Five weeks on from the Big Vote, top London buying agency Black Brick reports that its clients are falling broadly into two categories...
Magnificent blue-blooded sporting estate offered up for £10.5m
One of Scotland’s finest sporting estates - a favourite of Queen Victoria's now owned by the Astor family - has come up for sale just days before the Glorious Twelfth, with a £10.
Carrington on Q2: When you are presented with figures such as these over a relatively short period, then something is wrong
LonRes Chairman reviews the London market in Q2
Uncertainty hits New York’s townhouse market
London isn't the only place having a tough time of it.
Let The Games Begin: Short-term accommodation and the law
In the UK, the short-letting business really came to the fore with the London Olympics
Westminster’s anti-iceberg basement rules are now in play
Westminster Council's anti-iceberg rules came into effect this week, making it exceptionally difficult to create big-scale basement extensions in the borough.