Location: Prime Central London
CPI & Main pick up another trophy property, acquiring the Savile Row police station for c.£50m
European investor CPI and London super-prime specialist Dean Main have made another big acquisition in Prime London, taking on the decommissioned West End Central Police Station on Savile Row
Southbank Place sales boss Brian De’ath on when a scheme becomes a reality
Six years after the initial launch of Southbank Place, the 5
Century completes £5.5m loan on Chelsea mansion
Prime resi bridging lender reports bumper week of deals in spite of some ‘challenging’ conditions.
International buyer picks up £14.25m Mayfair apartment (and just in time)
Off-market super-prime deal tucked away on the last day before the stamp duty hike.
London’s super-prime lettings market surges
Another agency is reporting a significant pick-up in top-end rental activity.
Agency ranks best prime postcodes for ‘snagging a relative bargain’
WC1H in Bloomsbury offers the ‘biggest property price bargain’, according to Benham & Reeves.
Prime Central London ‘has now bottomed out’ – Savills
Back to work plans are boosting demand for town and city homes, says Savills, but the country house and coastal property markets are still riding high.
Ranked: London’s ten most expensive streets of 2020
Upper Phillimore Gardens in Kensington has been named London's most expensive address of last year, with a median sold price in 2020 of £28 million.
Hip to be square: On the growing demand for London’s communal gardens
PCL experts explain how shared spaces became seriously hot property.
FT: What the stamp duty charge for overseas buyers means for London
In this piece for the Financial Times, George Hammond speaks to buyers, agencies and analysts about the potential impacts of the incoming 2% surcharge for non-residents.
‘A clear framework for developers in one of London’s most spatially constrained boroughs’: Key policy headlines from the draft Westminster City Plan
Savills summarises the main takeaways from the borough’s planning and development blueprint for the next two decades, which has just been found sound by the planning inspectorate.
Vaccine tycoon reportedly rents Mayfair mansion for £50k per week
It's being reported that the Chief Executive of the Serum Institute of India has agreed to pay a massive £50,000 per week to rent a 25,000 sq ft mansion in Prime Central London.