Location: London
Luxury asset lender enters the prime resi arena
An online platform that lets people borrow cash by putting their luxury assets up as collateral is apparently poised to make a "big splash" in the prime and super-prime resi sector.
Prime Property of the Week: Mews Company
Lyall Street, Belgravia
£22.5m
If it's frontage and flexibility you're after, this unique proposition in the stucco heartland of SW1X should do the trick.
Principia scales new heights for charity
The brave souls at Principia Estate and Asset Management have raised a whopping £17,000 in aid of male cancer charity the Orchid Cancer Appeal, by abseiling 541 feet down London's scarily-high Broadgate…
Opportunities & Pitfalls: How macro machinations are affecting EMEA’s luxury property market
The ultra-wealthy's appetite for luxury properties in Europe, the Middle East and Africa is growing, says Sotheby's International Real Estate and Wealth-X, after the pair's UHNW Residential Real Estate…
EMEA’s Future-Prime Hotspots: Madrid, Dubai and Cape Town
With the per square foot price of property in London standing at between three and nine times as much as that of Madrid, Dubai and Cape Town, these three cities all present strong and improving value…
Giant Mortlake brewery site hits the market
One of the biggest resi development opportunities in SW London has just hit the market.
Sign of the Times: John D Wood’s long-serving boards get a ‘modern makeover’
Estate agency John D Wood & Co has touched up its For Sale and To Let boards, revamping a design that's lined streets across London, Surrey, Hampshire and Oxfordshire unchanged for the last 25 years.
Covent Garden ex-council causes a stir
Dubbed "the UK's most expensive ex-local authority flat"
60% of London surveyors believe local property is ‘overpriced to some extent’
Buyer demand is continuing to rise while supply conditions "continue to tighten," says the RICS in its July Residential Market Survey.
Watch Where You Tread: Wooden floors and leasehold apartments
It might look great, but the potential consequences of installing wooden flooring in breach of lease can be pretty expensive. Denielle Rickman and Rachel Kerr advise on how to avoid any slip ups...
Prime Purchase grows Cotswolds team
Property buying agency Prime Purchase is boosting its presence in the Cotswolds, recruiting a local Savills man to its team.
213 super-prime units due for completion in PCL this year; development market ‘vibrant’
Resi development in the capital remained "vibrant" in Q2, according to new analysis by Cushman & Wakefield, with strong levels of construction starts and sales.