Location: London
New resi JV premieres with £40m Hayes waterside scheme
            A new residential development joint venture has launched with plans to build a £40m Rolfe Judd-designed waterside apartments scheme in Hayes (near the new Crossrail station), and there are "more projects…        
    Regal wins permission for Queens Park scheme
            Brent's planners have given Regal Homes the go-ahead to build a 74-unit residential development in Queens Park, NW6.
        
    High spec home tech awards open for entries
            Entries are now open for home technology trade body CEDIA's 2016 awards.
        
    Agents gloomy on prime London prospects as demand wanes
            The latest survey of agents by LonRes has painted a "fairly gloomy" picture of the prime London market.
        
    Will 2016 be ‘the year of the owner-occupier’?
            We're still only a month in, but Jackson-Stops & Staff has already come up with a few resi development trends for 2016. Here's a quick overview...
	Developers spread their wings
        
    ‘A muted start to the year’ as prices edge up in prime central London
            It's "a muted start to the year" says Knight Frank, echoing recent sentiments from LonRes, as property prices in prime central London rose by 0.1% in January, edging annual growth up to 1.2%.
        
    Knight Frank New Homes boosts London team
            Knight Frank's burgeoning New Homes operation has added another name to the teamsheet in London, with the hire of former Chestertons and Currell man Christopher Jones.
        
    Gulf-based buyers ‘piling in’ to UK property market
            Buyers from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are "piling in" to the British property market to beat the stamp duty surcharge, according to top-end mortgage broker deVere.
        
    TfL names 13 property partners for its major resi development programme
            Transport for London (TfL) has named 13 property development companies and consortiums to a development framework which will see resi and commercial re-inventions of some of the capital's most wanted locations.
        
    Why a year of no growth would be better for the market
            LonRes Chairman William Carrington cautions against the expectation of a resumption of price rises...
        
    London ‘remains attractive’ to investors; trophy home buyers, not so much
            Despite the Chancellor’s best attempts to slow the market, demand for privately rented accommodation in the capital is holding, says Black Brick's Camilla Dell.        
    Four Communications ramps up property marketing offering
            Marketing megalith Four Communications has boosted its property division with a trio of big hitters from the creative world.
 Piers Bracher