Location: London
How Boris bikes have turned resi backwaters into rental hubs
Boris Bikes have opened up chunks of London's rental hinterlands - Sand's End, Haggerston and the like - to more discerning tenants, and that's caused some spiky returns for landlords in the right areas,…
Boris opens door to new top council tax band
Mayor Boris Johnson: "If you compared with a Russian oligarch is paying on his stuccoed schloss in Kensington in annual council tax compared to what such a gentleman might be asked to pay in Paris or New…
Genr8 recruits A-list team for major urban development projects
Urban renewal specialists Genr8 has recruited some seriously heavyweight people, including former JLL Chief Exec and Chairman of the UK Green Building Council Andrew Gould, to its team in advance of a…
Call for listed building owners to have their say
The government has been playing around with listed building consents, introducing a swathe of reforms that are intended to improve the lot of heritage home owners and the properties they care for..
Hidden Stanley Peach masterpiece hits the market
A converted electricity sub-station built by the renowned Scottish architect Charles Stanley Peach has just hit the market in Little Venice, with a price tag of £17.95m.
Global Live-Work costs spiral 21% since 2009 as world economies “rebalance”
Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris top a new list of the most expensive cities for live-work spaces from Savills, with all four topping the $100,000 per year mark
Domestic purchasers dominate London’s Midtown market – CBRE
CBRE Residential (Midtown) - or EA Shaw as it used to be known - turned in a bumper end to the year by all accounts, reporting a 26% year-on-year boost in average values and a near-tripling in the total…
£44m secured for Shepherd’s Bush Market mixed use scheme
"Significant funding" to the tune of £44.
Space Planning: Knight Frank goes galactic
Sub-orbital space travel has the right stuff to "radically shift global property markets," says Knight Frank (and Richard Branson) in its soon-to-launch Wealth Report 2014
Royal Brompton Rejig: RBKC publishes planning guidance
The draft Supplementary Planning Document for 3.5 acres of the Royal Brompton Hospital’s land - potentially the most valuable PCL development opportunity since Chelsea Barracks - has just gone public.
Fit for purpose? London’s new wave of private gyms and spas
Residents of modern luxury developments are increasingly looking for more than an apartment, displaying an appetite for "lifestyle packages" to rival those found in the world's top hotels.
English Rose’s early raid on the warchest
English Rose Estates has gone to town, spending £50m of its £300m warchest in the first two months of the year.