Location: London
Prime Property of the Week: Project of Desire
Stanley Crescent, Notting Hill
£9.5m
The key to successful property development, as we are constantly told, is to remain rational throughout. Don't get carried away. Or bite off more than you can chew.
Billionaire H&M boss wins Battle of Ramsbury
The Battle of Ramsbury is over;
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?
New English Heritage charity announces first Chief Exec
The new English Heritage - the current version splits in two in April to become Historic England (a government service) and English Heritage (a charity) - has announced it's first Chief Executive.
Southbank’s Palace View site comes to market
A few days after Alchemi announced the sale of its 300,000 square foot scheme in Victoria, another prominent development site has just hit the market in the capital, this time on the Southbank.
Buyers and investors should take advantage of this window of opportunity – Winkworth
2015 is shaping up to be a "challenging" year, says Winkworth, but the agency's PCL teams have nonetheless turned in an "encouraging" January, with decent levels of stock and signs of "more sustainable" price…
£1m+ sales jump by 15% – Land Reg
The average house price across England and Wales nudged up by 0.6% in December to take the annual rate growth to 6%, according to the latest batch of data from the Land Registry.
How the iceberg home melted away
Homeowners and developers should still be able to build good-sized subterranean extensions, but the days of the mega-basement are dead and buried, says Ed White...
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 -…
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.
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…
‘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...