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Duty Bound: A PCL Investor’s Budget Day Wishlist
It's that time of year again and the whole industry is currently perched on the edge of its seat awaiting the contents of Osbo's battered red box and the results of the consultation on the 3% additional s…
Purple Patches: CBRE tears up Lizzie Line forecasts as house prices steam ahead
Prices around Elizabeth Line (née Crossrail) stations have already smashed expectations, says CBRE, leading the firm to overhaul its original forecasts.
In With A Shot: British Land to take on first ‘Instagrammer-in-Residence’
Clarges developer British Land has partnered up with IGersLondon, one of the city’s biggest Instagram communities, to launch a competition to find an in-house Instagrammer.
Caan-backed luxury developer Sons & Co in management buyout
Sons & Co, the high-end resi property developer set up by brothers Alexander and Christian Stocker, along with Simon Roberts, has gone out on its own. The
Wandsworth Council bans ‘dominating’ estate agents’ boards
Estate agents now need to apply for permission to put up advertising boards in Putney, Balham, Clapham Junction and Lavender Hill (maps of affected streets below), after the council waged war on what i…
Leeming slams stamp duty surcharge; ‘the only losers will be tenants’
The incoming 3% stamp duty surcharge will fail to deter buy-to-let investors in most parts of the UK, according to one national agency, although it may succeed in making things harder for tenants.
150-fold rise in London homes listed on AirBnB as private landlords get in on the act
London's homeowners are going nuts for AirBnB. JLL has recorded a 150-fold rise in the number of resi properties listed on the home-lettings website over the past five years.
ELLE Decoration launches interiors consultancy with major Greenwich project
The UK edition of Hearst's ELLE Decoration is branching out, launching an interiors Style Consultancy that it says is "set to revolutionise the world of commercial property development".
CBRE hires big gun from Chestertons to lead international sales team
CBRE has recruited a top name from Chestertons to head up its central London-based international sales operation.
On Development: Who will be left exposed as the tide goes out?
A heady cocktail of high land prices, escalating construction costs and increasing pressure on sales values is challenging the viability of developments, says TowerEight's Paul Allen, and some firms c…
BNP Paribas Real Estate launches its first residential development in London
French property giant BNP Paribas Real Estate has followed up its Google-let first London office development (in King's Cross) with the launch its first residential development on this side of the Channel: …
RBKC scraps permitted development rights for basements
The Royal Borough has confirmed it is to remove permitted development rights for all basement extensions from next month