Location: Midlands
Urban land values outperform in multi-speed market
The UK is seeing a highly regionalised housing market reflected in a multi-speed development land market, with urban brownfield sites powering ahead of greenfield and PCL.
At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow (exhibition)
The Royal Institute of British Architects and BBC Four have teamed up to create a new exhibition - At Home in Britain: Designing the House of Tomorrow - which re-examines how we live and showcases thought-provoking…
‘Country House clause’ win for AR Design Studio in Buckinghamshire
Buckinghamshire's planners have invoked the "Country House Clause" - Paragraph 55 - to give the green light to a contemporary three bedroom house in the Green Belt designed by AR Design Studio.
Exploring the evergreen appeal of Capability Brown’s grand landscape designs
300 years after his birth, the influence of the great landscape gardener Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown is still very apparent — and growing — in contemporary garden design.
Hadley recruits a fleet of new directors to manage ambitious expansion plans
Residential developer Hadley Property Group has appointed five new directors to its central London team, as part of a strategy to "to take the company from a medium-sized business to a leading player in…
Asking prices have risen by 50% in ten years to breach £300k – but London has come to a standstill
The average price of a property coming to market in England and Wales has breached £300,000 for the first time, according to Rightmove's latest stats, but London prices are at a standstill.
Osborne extends SDLT surcharge and cracks down on offshore developers #Budget 2016
"We can choose to be a force for stability", said Chancellor George at the start of today's Budget speech, but four overhauls of the nation's finances within 12 months - two full Budgets, an extra Summer…
High Court slashes estate agent’s ‘outrageous’ money laundering fine
A £169,652 fine imposed on a Northamptonshire estate agency for failings related to money laundering regulation has been ridiculed by a High Court judge, who called the amount "seriously disproportionate",…
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.
Developer faces record fine after ‘most significant conviction for bat crime ever recorded’
A property developer has been handed down a record £10,700 fine in what's been described as "the most significant conviction for bat crime ever recorded".
Cash buyers behind a third of £1m-plus sales
It's been estimated that around one in three £1m+ properties sold in England & Wales over the last five years were paid for in cash.
Coldwell Banker opens up in Notting Hill
US luxury real estate broker Coldwell Banker has opened up a new outlet - its third in London - in Notting Hill.