Location: London
18-month old Purplebricks becomes first online agent to float
Online estate agency Purplebricks - which claims to be the UK's fourth biggest estate agency (most customers) - has confirmed that it will start trading on the Stock Market with a £255m valuation on…
Pidgley: Continued property tax changes may cause unintended consequences
The boss of giant housebuilder Berkeley Group has warned of "unintended consequences" resulting from "continued changes" to property taxation in the UK.
Another slice of Soho to sell with resi development plans
It's being reported that a significant chunk of Berwick Street in Soho is to be sold off-market.
Peter Beckwith's investment juggernaut PMB Holdings has, CoStar.co.
Number of £500k+ stamp duty bills in prime London rockets by 64%
High value property transactions have slumped in the last year, as a major reform of the stamp duty system significantly upped the cost of moving at the £1m+ level.
Strutt & Parker acquires Surrey planning consultancy
Strutt & Parker has bought AKA Planning, an independent planning consultancy based in Leatherhead.
AKA's team of six planners will join Strutt & Parker’s existing development team in Guildford;
PCL price growth sinks to six-year low (but at least viewings are on the up)
Annual price growth in prime central London fell to 0.9% in November, Knight Frank has reported. A monthly decline of 0.3% took the yearly rate down to the lowest it's been since October 2009.
Change at the top for St Modwen’s resi operations
St. Modwen, the property developer and regeneration specialist behind New Covent Garden and Wembley Central, has made a couple of changes to its senior residential team.
Relationship with property ‘has permanently changed’ as regional markets fragment
"The fragmented nature of the regional market became very apparent" this year, says Carter Jonas, as house prices soared past their pre-crash high-points in the South and East, but continued to languish…
John Taylor debuts in Germany with new Berlin base
Luxury real estate brokerage John Taylor has boosted its tally of global offices to 21 after opening up a Berlin operation.
Sotheby’s ramps up RDI activity with raft of high-profile launches
The UK arm of Sotheby's International Realty has been upping its Resi Development & Investment game lately, bagging instructions across three new high-end schemes in London.
Buy-to-Let Stamp Duty: What the new surcharge means for the property market
After George Osborne used his Autumn Statement to drop a surprise bombshell on the property investment sector, tacking an extra 3% SDLT levy on second homes and buy-to-let properties, Savills has produced…
Knightsbridge tipped as 2016’s ‘place to bag a bargain’
'Leading the way in terms of price drops compared with the other prime residential boroughs'