Location: London
Great Portland recruits new Portfolio Director
After promoting two to its Executive Committee last July, Great Portland Estates has made another hire, bringing in a new Portfolio Director to help "provide the Group with further capacity to deliver…
£7.7m show apartment and David Bailey art gallery unveiled at The Chilterns
The first completed apartment has been unveiled at Marylebone's exclusive The Chilterns scheme, along with the first art gallery to be set within a luxury new-build apartment building in the capital.
At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow (exhibition)
The Royal Institute of British Architects and BBC Four have teamed up to create a new exhibition - At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow - which re-examines how we live and showcases thought-provoking…
Land Registry: Prices pause for breath; £1m+ deals up; £2m+ deals down
The Land Registry's February data has shown a monthly price decrease of 0.2% across England & Wales, putting the current annual price change at 6.1%.
Now you see them, now you don’t: Will vendors learn from the experience of 2015?
The market out there is robust, just so long as sellers don’t get greedy, says top PCL buying agent Saul Empson...
Vendors ‘staying on after completion’ as buyers try to beat tax deadline
Vendors and buyers in PCL have found an unusual workaround to beat the SDLT surcharge deadline, according to JLL-owned Knightsbridge agency W.A.Ellis.
Wood Working: How to commission bespoke joinery for luxury living
Royal Warrant holder Neil Stevenson provides an indispensable guide to specifying joinery for the luxury high-end market, and looks at the latest wood trends in prime resi developments...
Government plans to ‘lift the veil’ on foreign companies buying UK real estate
In June, the UK will become the first G20 country to set up a publicly accessible central registry showing who really owns and controls companies.
Inside London’s most opulent subterranean scheme
One particular project in St John's Wood has been causing quite the stir over the last few weeks.
London & New York compete for UAE HNWI private capital
Big-spending high net worth individuals (HNWIs) in the UAE currently see London as the top global destination for real estate investment, according to new findings from Cluttons and YouGov.
Gravy Train: Crossrail markets ‘about to step up another gear’
Those worried about missing the boat - or train for that matter - may be interested in JLL's updated Crossrail research, which claims there's still "an abundance" of resi opportunities along the newly-christened…
London’s Glitziest Neighbourhood: Inside Mayfair’s £1bn ‘Qatari Quarter’
The ultra-prime swathe 'tween Hyde Park and The Connaught has witnessed a flurry of landmark purchases by Qataris in recent years, so much so that agents are now calling the area London's 'Qatari Quarter'…