Location: Midlands
WhatHouse? Awards: Winners
Some deserving accolades were dished out to some of the prime resi industry's finest at last week's WhatHouse? Awards.
Prime Property of the Week: Stately Progress
Hawkstone Hall, Shropshire
£4.25m
FORECAST: Mansion tax could mean a 10% fall for superprime London next year – Savills
Savills has issued forecasts for two scenarios for the prime market in 2015: one with and one without a mansion tax. It makes quite a difference...
‘Crown Jewel of the Teme Valley’ asks £7m
The extraordinary ancestral home of the Winnington family has just come up for sale in Worcestershire.
Required Reading: High value residential property and the Immigration Act
The requirement for landlords to undertake immigration checks presents a number of practical points that will have particular relevance to high value resi lettings, says Jane Reyersbach...
FORECAST: +4% for UK house prices next year; +1.5% for PCL – JLL
JLL has predicted that UK house prices will rise by 4% next year, and is expecting Greater London to significantly outperform PCL.
Growth in prime central London will stand at 1.
Knight Frank promotes 103 to Partner and Associate
Knight Frank has made a bundle of promotions, bumping 34 employees up to Partner level and another 69 to the Associate rank.
On the residential side of the business, 25 have been made Partners:
£11,400-a-minute: How commuting time affects house prices
An extra minute on a commute knocks £11,400 off the value of a property, according to (more) research from CBRE.
Transactions numbers drop by nearly 5%
Transactions dropped by nearly 5% between August and September, according to the latest batch of stats from HMRC.
The seasonally adjusted estimate of the number of residential transactions fell by 4.
West London to see slowest price growth in Britain over the next five years
Average house prices are in for a 30% increase over the next five years, with London (not PCL, mind;
Modernist Kensington landmark asks £3.65m
One of the most distinctive houses in Kensington - a Grade II-listed, Tom Kay-designed Modernist marvel - has just become available for £3.65m.
What will become of Burford Priory?
Unofficial monarchs of the Chipping Norton set Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch probably didn't appreciate all that newspaper coverage over the weekend, but such is life that speculation has already…