Location: Prime Central London
18-month old Purplebricks becomes first online agent to float
Online estate agency Purplebricks - which claims to be the UK's fourth biggest estate agency (most customers) - has confirmed that it will start trading on the Stock Market with a £255m valuation on…
Number of £500k+ stamp duty bills in prime London rockets by 64%
High value property transactions have slumped in the last year, as a major reform of the stamp duty system significantly upped the cost of moving at the £1m+ level.
Strutt & Parker acquires Surrey planning consultancy
Strutt & Parker has bought AKA Planning, an independent planning consultancy based in Leatherhead.
AKA's team of six planners will join Strutt & Parker’s existing development team in Guildford;
PCL price growth sinks to six-year low (but at least viewings are on the up)
Annual price growth in prime central London fell to 0.9% in November, Knight Frank has reported. A monthly decline of 0.3% took the yearly rate down to the lowest it's been since October 2009.
Change at the top for St Modwen’s resi operations
St. Modwen, the property developer and regeneration specialist behind New Covent Garden and Wembley Central, has made a couple of changes to its senior residential team.
John Taylor debuts in Germany with new Berlin base
Luxury real estate brokerage John Taylor has boosted its tally of global offices to 21 after opening up a Berlin operation.
Sotheby’s ramps up RDI activity with raft of high-profile launches
The UK arm of Sotheby's International Realty has been upping its Resi Development & Investment game lately, bagging instructions across three new high-end schemes in London.
Buy-to-Let Stamp Duty: What the new surcharge means for the property market
After George Osborne used his Autumn Statement to drop a surprise bombshell on the property investment sector, tacking an extra 3% SDLT levy on second homes and buy-to-let properties, Savills has produced…
Knightsbridge tipped as 2016’s ‘place to bag a bargain’
'Leading the way in terms of price drops compared with the other prime residential boroughs'
Mayfair Play: £2 billion Audley Square scheme recommended for approval
Plans to turn a grotty Mayfair car park into a 296,000 square foot neo-classical scheme worth an estimated £2bn have received the initial thumbs up from Westminster planners.
The logistics of leasehold extension (and is it worth it?)
Clients can get a bit anxious about the paperwork and bureaucracy involved, but increasing the number of years remaining on the lease can often be the key to improving the saleability of their property,…
Special Delivery: Sager and Cain Hoy unveil £400m Islington Square scheme
Sager Group and Cain Hoy have lifted the lid on their much-anticipated reimagining of the ginormous former North London Royal Mail Centre.