Location: London
Vendors now ‘more open to negotiation’ than at any time over the last six years
There's plenty of clients out there, and some deals to be had, reports Mayfair-based buying agency Black Brick, but most of the action has predictably been below £2m...
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Budget 2015: Crib Sheet
In his sixth budget, 50 days before the general election, George Osborne's focus was unsurprisingly on economic stability, continuing to reduce the deficit and moving towards a Britain built on savings…
By Georgian: Developer to restore ‘finest eighteenth century street in the Midlands’
A developer has embarked on a project to restore an entire Grade II/II* listed Georgian street in the centre of Warwick.
Tall Storeys: Big spike in London high-rise construction
New stats have shown there are currently 263 buildings over 20 storeys either proposed, approved or under construction within Greater London, up from 236 at the same point last year.
Prime Purchase revs up in the ‘M40 Wealth Corridor’
Buying agency Prime Purchase has hired a former Strutt & Parker Partner to boost its footprint in the "M40 wealth corridor".
RBKC builds planning enforcement team for developer crackdown
The Royal Borough has warned property developers that they "are being closely scrutinised," after it recruited a third more planning enforcement officers to crack down on errant works.
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‘Once-in-a-lifetime’ campus-to-resi opportunity comes to market in Glasgow
"The largest and most eagerly anticipated development opportunity in Scotland this year" has come up in the heart of Glasgow’s affluent west end.
Candy told to cough up over Sugar Quay
CPC Group and Barratts' Sugar Quay scheme got no sweet treatment from planners over a S106 dispute: The Corporation of London has stuck to its guns, demanding a full £15m in affordable housing contribution.
Newnham crowned ‘Best Place to Live in Britain’
A suburb of Cambridge has been named as the best place to live in the UK.
The Sunday Times reckons Newnham has it licked, combining a village atmosphere with close proximity to a thriving city centre. Mor
Project Blue Monday: Construction work begins on Chelsea Barracks
After eight years of preparation, speculation, and even a royal intervention, it's been reported that construction work has finally begun at the 13-acre Chelsea Barracks site on Chelsea Bridge Road.
Please Mr Osborne: An estate agency’s Budget wishlist
Although the UK now has one of the fastest growing economies in the developed world, London-based estate agency Chestertons thinks that the Chancellor still has an embarrassingly large budget deficit …
Irish prices soar as global property performance slips
Knight Frank's Global House Price Index dropped a touch in the last three months of 2014 - its first fall in over two years - sliding by 0.