Location: Prime Central London
Magnificent Beast: Heseltine’s Belgravia lair hits the market at £28m
Georgian mansion on Chapel Street, which once belonged to the king of the political jungle, emerges from an ultra-prime transformation as one of PCL's finest specimens...
Grand Registry: Surveying last month’s biggest registered deals
A best-in-class family home in Chelsea and a stately new-build mansion in Surrey topped the rundown of high-end sales recorded by the Land Registry in September...
Westminster’s new City Plan goes to the vote on 13th November
Westminster's "ambitious" set of new planning policies are to go before the City Council’s Full Council for consideration next month.
PCL price rally ‘peters out’
Prices slipped by 0.6% in September to leave the annual fall at 1.8%, reports LCP, with transaction volumes now running at their lowest ever level...
104 property sales worth £2.06bn: London’s super-prime market in five charts
Some fascinating insights into this year's £10m+ sales market from Knight Frank, including a flurry of £30m+ deals, building demand for super-prime, currency plays, and how UHNW buyers are getting younger…
Who will watch the watchmen: On dirty money & estate agency
The government is finally stepping up the fight against the tide of 'dirty money' flowing through the UK property market, but estate agents shouldn't be the first line of defence, argues Saul Empson...
Market Snapshot: Prime rents in London & the commuter belt
Prime London rents have risen for the first time since 2016, reports Savills, while rents in the commuter belt continue to fall
Knight Frank launches scaled-up planning offering in London
Agency assembles dedicated team led by ex-GL Hearn man Stuart Baillie, with ambitious plans to boost market share...
‘We are having to act like buying agents to find properties’ – Hamptons
A recent super-prime deal in Belgravia shows how selling agents are being forced to go above and beyond in the stock-starved PCL market...
Northacre hires new construction director
Ex-Bouygues and Berkeley Homes man Robert Gibson will be managing the construction of landmark projects No. 1 Palace Street and The Broadway
New studio and high-end lettings arm for Ballantine Percival
Buying agency and resi development consultancy hires ex-Chard man to roll out rental offering, and hatches plan to open a new 'collaborative' studio in west London
Long-Term Prospectors: Hannah Aykroyd on PCL’s new breed of buy-to-let investor
Clients are increasingly coming to buy-to-let with a long hold in mind, intent on capitalising on lower prices and a weaker Sterling, while showing less interest in yield, reports top buying agent Hannah…