Location: London
Tonic for Tomorrow: 10 steps to a healthier UK property market
A trio of big-hitters - Countrywide, Hamptons International and Lambert Smith Hampton - have strapped on their stethoscopes and come up with a treatment plan for the UK's ailing property market.
A Capital Polarised: How levels of buyer activity vary across London
The number of London homes sold for over £2m has almost halved so far this year, down 48.7% on the same period a year ago.
Planners ‘astonished’ to find Kensington property had been demolished
RBKC planners have halted work on a site in Kensington after an ad hoc visit revealed the developer had cracked on before fulfilling a key condition of the permission.
Abingdon Road in Kensington (archive)
Foxtons profits end up after ‘a year of two halves’
Foxtons Group Plc's pre-tax profits jumped by 8.2% last year, despite a "sharp downturn" through the second half and some naysaying from financial pundits.
Letter from MIPIM #2: How to Play Real Estate Blind Date
LinkedIn has been a lifesaver in this maelstrom of real estate Blind Date, says Nicky Richmond...
Day two and I'm making notes.
Green House: Belgravia refurb becomes first listed building to hit BREEAM Outstanding
A Grade II listed home on Ebury Street, Belgravia, has won BRE's BREEAM Residential Award after becoming the first listed building in the UK to achieve the highest possible "Outstanding" rating for its…
‘Dramatic’ fall in PCL house sales (even for an election year)
A significant reduction in transactions is to be expected in an election year, but there have only been nineteen house sales across the whole of Belgravia, Chelsea, Knightsbridge and Kensington in…
The rise of resi, Asia’s ‘flight to safety’ and other global real estate megatrends
Residential property is "moving out of the public or semi-public sector and specialist investor/developer ambit, and into the mainstream," and the movement of capital from East to West is likely to remain…
Crown Estate names new Head of Development
The Crown Estate has appointed Matt Giles as its new Head of Development.
Letter from MIPIM #1: A Different Time
Nicky Richmond reports back from her nineteenth MIPIM, where things seem very different to how they were in 1996...
Just a single glance at the overstuffed diary makes me feel a little anxious.
Hamptons acquires property consultancy ikon
A week after announcing the takeover of Hertfordshire-based agency John Curtis, Hamptons has made another acquisition in the form of multi-discipline property consultancy, ikon.
Belgravia agency signs former Telegraph Property Editor to drive digital platforms
Stuart Penney, the Daily Telegraph's Property Editor from 2010 to 2015, has teamed up with Belgravia estate agency Henry & James to drive its digital platforms forward.
Penney, Stuart Penney