Grosvenor’s McWilliam steps up to helm the WPA
Craig McWilliam has been named Chair of the Westminster Property Association, replacing James Cooksey.
In West End
Landmark Covent Garden building goes for £12.4m at auction
Allsop chalks up new price record after bidders slug it out over HQ of venerable women’s weekly The Lady on Bedford Street
In Pictures: Pedestrian-first plans to reinvent Aldwych & the Strand
Westminster wants to turn the West End’s hectic gyratory into ‘a world-class cultural and learning quarter’.
Landmark home of The Lady hits the auction block
Venerable women’s weekly to offload ‘trophy’ office and resi asset on Bedford Street
12 super-prime instructions poised for some pent-up demand
PrimeResi takes you on a whistle-stop tour of a dozen top-end listings waiting for rising activity levels to translate into acceptable offers…
Investment firm swoops on Bond Street Station mixed-use site
Hines has acquired a prime block on Oxford Street, opposite Bond Street station, with plans for a residential and retail development
Lodha UK goes it alone as Indian parent company gears up for IPO
Mumbai-based mega-developer to concentrate efforts on its business in India ahead of a planned public listing; reports suggest c.£470m could be raised from the sale of Prime Central London assets
Almacantar pushes on with sales at Centre Point follow-up
Developer rolls out Farrells-designed boutique scheme on Edgware Road, after standing down sales agencies at its flagship Centre Point project
Almacantar puts Centre Point sales on ice as uncertainty grips the market
Resi sales agents CBRE & Knight Frank ‘stood down’ at landmark West End scheme as developer ‘sees no point in chasing a market that is increasingly detached from reality’
Firmdale Hotels wins approval for mixed-use development in Soho
Luxury hotel operator ditches plans for a remarkable resi scheme – featuring a quadruplex “Skyhouse” – in favour of office space plus two apartments next to the Soho Hotel
Merchant Land reinvents trio of historic Fitzrovia townhouses
Boutique developer unveils new Studio Downie-designed project in the Charlotte Street Conservation Area
Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway enters London’s estate agency market with Kay & Co franchise deal
Sage of Omaha’s investment vehicle strikes franchise deal with west London-based boutique firm; plans to roll out ‘up to ten’ more offices in PCL under the BH brand via acquisitions and JVs