Location: Prime Central London
Cooling measures spread as global prime property price growth escalates
Vancouver is the latest global real estate hotspot looking to curb property price inflation (following the lead of Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and more), bringing in a really quite chunky 15% levy…
Exclusive Pictures: £18.8m show flat on Grosvenor Square goes crowdfunding
Fresh from raising £1m in just eight days to fund a renovation project on Eaton Square, new high-end property crowdfunding platform CapitalRise has gone even more up-market with its second investment…
Uncertainty hits New York’s townhouse market
London isn't the only place having a tough time of it.
Let The Games Begin: Short-term accommodation and the law
In the UK, the short-letting business really came to the fore with the London Olympics
Westminster’s anti-iceberg basement rules are now in play
Westminster Council's anti-iceberg rules came into effect this week, making it exceptionally difficult to create big-scale basement extensions in the borough.
Architects come up with 20 ways to ‘tackle the housing crisis’
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has set out a hashtagged batch of proposals to deal with what it calls "the UK’s dire housing crisis".
UK Sotheby’s International Realty launches flagship office and HQ in Belgravia
United Kingdom Sotheby’s International Realty has opened a new two-floor flagship office - which will become the company's London headquarters - on Ebury Street in Belgravia.
Three reasons why UK house prices have become detached from earnings
As we learned this week, home ownership is tumbling across the UK - the last Conservative regime has a lot to answer for, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
Refurbishment Road: How to save 57% on a same street property
A canny PCL agency has identified some prime Westminster streets where savvy buyers can "save" almost 60% by opting for a refurb project over a luxury new-build.
Forget Super Thursday, the Bank of England can only offer Mildly Useful Thursday
Today's interest rate cut by the Bank of England isn't the big economic solution we need, argues the University of Cambridge's Michael Kitson...
Reactions: Bank of England cuts interest rates for first time in seven years
In a universally-expected move, the Bank of England has halved the Base Rate to an historic low of just 0.25% and renewed some quantitative easing. The BoE's interest rate had been at an already low 0.
New PCL rental supply jumped by 49% in Q2 – Knight Frank
There's lots happening in prime central London's rental property arena, says Knight Frank: newly-agreed tenancies are on the up, viewing numbers are soaring and supply levels are leaping, but both rental…