Location: London
Doing a Grosvenor: The Making of Mayfair’s Mount Street
How do you reposition a sleepy backwater into one of the world's top luxury destinations? Simply follow Grosvenor's example and you won't go far wrong, claims a new report into the restoration of Mayfair's Mou…
UK’s top 25 housebuilders employ ‘just 46 architects’
Britain's top 25 housing construction firms directly employ a grand total of 46 architects between them, according to new findings released this week, with just three firms accounting for half that li…
TfL on the hunt for development partners to turn it into one of London’s great estates
Rather than just selling them off, Transport for London has come up with a ten-year plan to redevelop 50 sites covering something close to ten million square feet across London - mostly central and fringe - a…
Oil prices and Eurozone easing could ‘pop London’s property bubble’
Quantitive Easing in Europe and crashing oil prices could cause central London's property prices to drop by "as much as 50%" warn a couple of people in MoneyWeek
Clarges Mayfair sales top £250m
British Land has reported notching up £365m worth of resi sales last year, as its Clarges Mayfair scheme continues to bring home the bacon.
‘No easier’ to buy a PCL pied-a-terre in 2015 than it was in 2014
The Midtown, City and Docklands patch has witnessed some pretty interesting trends over the last year, reports local agent Hurford Salvi Carr, including pied-a-terres becoming flavour of the month...
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Pretty Vacant: Why Tessa Jowell’s plan to tax empty homes is doomed to fail
The reason why private landowners keep derelict houses empty is usually because they are waiting for a planning resolution, says Trevor Abrahmsohn..
Balance of Tower: Why London’s development boom could ruin the capital
There's "a cuckoo in the nest" in central London, says property search consultancy Property Vision, as it points out that there's a potentially massive over-supply of high-end resi units being delivered b…
Resi development land prices ‘likely to be more subdued’
Land values in prime central London soared by 24% last year, with Q4 delivering a +6.4% says Knight Frank, but greenfield residential development land struggled.
Even taking 2012's lowly +2.
Marsh & Parsons moves East with Shoreditch opening
Marsh & Parsons is starting off a quartet of new office openings slated for this year with a Shoreditch branch
Foxtons in Q4 sales slump
Foxtons has reported a big drop in sales commission in its latest trading update.
The estate agency confirmed that Q4 sales commission was down by a whopping 25.7% on the same period in 2013.
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The £300m Mansion: JFK’s childhood home tipped to become London’s most expensive
'Totally unique offering' on Princes Gate has planning for a return to single resi use