Location: Prime Central London
The big problem facing London’s top estate agencies
After twenty years with some of the biggest firms in the PCL market, this senior agency insider - who has asked to remain anonymous - is sensing a 'huge change' in the air, with potentially serious consequences…
Polish billionaire spanks £57m on Spink project near Harrods
Latest PCL mega-deal is said to involve a townhouse amalgamation on a 'prime garden square' in Knightsbridge
High value deal surge in Central London pushes property price inflation rate up
"Increased London house price growth may reflect a larger shift in the type of properties being sold than usual," says the official UK House Price Index, "with more sales of very high value properties.
Developers are back on the hunt for sites in PCL
Demand amongst both large and SME housebuilders for new sites in zones one and two is 'robust', reports Knight Frank, following a big drop-off in the wake of the EU Referendum
Listing Price: How London’s heritage buildings contribute to house price premiums
Savills has looked into how the prevalence of listed buildings affects average property prices around the capital; there's "a strong correlation" between heritage and higher prices, says the team.
Westminster is now more expensive than Kensington & Chelsea
Latest data shows a changing of the guard in PCL, as Westminster outperforms its neighbour to become the UK's priciest borough
Bedford Gardens project emerges as £25m super-home
Rare double-house was being marketed as a development opp in 2015
Mayfair deal numbers could jump by 50% this year, predicts Wetherell
Mayfair's "polarised" property market is due to bounce back after three years in the doldrums, says Peter Wetherell.
In Pictures: Inside the Squire and Partners-designed Lancer Square
Buyers have already picked up half of the residences at CIT's long-awaited super-prime scheme on Ken Church Street
In Pictures: Romantic Mayfair mansion debuts at £40m
8,000 square foot affair on South Street was once the home of Dame Barbara Cartland, the most successful romance novelist of all time.
City high-rollers return to Prime London
Proportion of £2m+ buyers from a City/finance background hit a six-year high in 2019
Neo Bankside residents lose Tate Modern privacy case (again)
Siding with the residents could have opened "floodgates" to many more privacy cases, said the Court of Appeal, in "every single case where there's planning permission granted and there's a balcony overlooking.