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New buying agent joins Sourcing Property
Independent property search agency Sourcing Property has recruited a new member to its ranks of buying agents.
Rob Chard joins the firm after spending four years at Deutsche Bank in London and Singapore.
Deconstructed: The Garden House, Hampstead
Squeezing a brand new detached house into the grounds of a Hampstead mansion block might seem unlikely, but Hamilton Court Developments and Claridge Architects have managed something quite special, creating…
US buyers £33k worse off than last week as sterling soars
Foreign buyers have seen the cost of buying a property in the UK rocket over the last week, after a Tory election win sent the value of the pound skywards.
Asking prices fall in May for the first time in five years
Rightmove recorded an unseasonal but not unpredictable fall in asking prices before the election.
Qataris behind £40m Mount Street mega-deal?
It sounds like a chunky deal may have just gone through on Mayfair's Mount Street.
‘Average London house prices are likely to breach the £1m barrier before 2030’
Population, employment levels and average earnings are all set to rise faster in the capital than in the rest of the country over the next 15 years, predicts Oxford Economics, and that means that "average…
Goldsmith joins Chestertons board
Industry veteran and RICS Fellow Peter Goldsmith has joined the Chestertons board as non-exec director.
Super-prime market ‘moderated slightly’ ahead of polls – British Land
British Land has reported an "excellent" year for the resi side of the business, despite the pre-election heebie-jeebies.
Clarges Mayfair on Piccadilly
PCL house price growth hits five-year low
Property prices in prime central London nudged up by 0.3% in April, says Knight Frank, to take the annual rate of growth at a five-year low of +2.8%.
Esher named most expensive place to rent outside London
New research has named Esher in Surrey as the most expensive place to rent a two-bed property outside of the capital.
Audit reveals London’s planning permission ‘postcode lottery’
Some councils in London are turning down nearly two thirds of the planning applications they receive, according to a review of all the proposals submitted over the last 12 months.
Pre-election nerves were ‘more dire than the Credit Crunch’ for prime central London property
Average prices in prime central London have dropped by 8% since Q4 2014, while transaction levels collapsed by 22.