Location: London
Mayfair Play: £2 billion Audley Square scheme recommended for approval
Plans to turn a grotty Mayfair car park into a 296,000 square foot neo-classical scheme worth an estimated £2bn have received the initial thumbs up from Westminster planners.
‘Wonderfully fruitful’ Q3 in the West End – CBRE
CBRE has reported a "wonderfully fruitful" quarter in the West End, with a 78% rise in sales activity compared with Q2. Sales so far this year are now up 41% on the same period last year.
Bloomsbury mansion block sells off air space after unexcavated basement goes for £150k
If you missed out on the unexcavated basement beneath this Bloomsbury mansion block last month, you can now snap up the empty air space above it.
The logistics of leasehold extension (and is it worth it?)
Clients can get a bit anxious about the paperwork and bureaucracy involved, but increasing the number of years remaining on the lease can often be the key to improving the saleability of their property,…
Special Delivery: Sager and Cain Hoy unveil £400m Islington Square scheme
Sager Group and Cain Hoy have lifted the lid on their much-anticipated reimagining of the ginormous former North London Royal Mail Centre.
Family home prices are rising seven times faster than the national average
Price growth in family homes is more than seven times the national average in key regional centres, says Jackson-Stops & Staff, after looking at property prices in England’s traditional county towns.
Transatlantic value gap tempts wealthy London buyers over to New York
Pitting the UK capital's luxury property market against its closest competitor on the world stage has revealed some fascinating findings for Beauchamp Estates and its new US partner Leslie J Garfield,…
Dubai developer tempts Chinese buyers with ‘fully-paid vacation offer’
Two of the world's top mega-developers have come up with a novel idea for getting Chinese buyers to dip a toe in the Dubai property market.
Stamp duty rollback offered on Maida Vale scheme
A developer in Maida Vale has launched a new scheme with an interesting pre-Christmas perk.
In Pictures: The £16m Mayfair ‘mega-lateral’
A three-bed on Albermarle Street has just been launched as "Mayfair and the West End's largest luxury apartment” although we'd probably throw in "currently available" just to be on the safe side.
Supercar Prime: Aston Martin car club raises the bar for London’s new resi developments
As Capco announces plans to furnish its forthcoming Lillie Square scheme with the world's first Aston Martin residents' car club, Knight Frank's Mark Wilkinson takes a look at the new level of amenities being…
Kay & Co kicks off festive season with ‘Christmas Grotto’ transformation
PCL agency Kay & Co has been laying on some festive cheer this week by turning its Hyde Park office into a full-on Christmas Grotto.