Location: Prime Central London
Post-Christmas divorces to ‘jump start’ 2016 lettings market
A recovery is on the cards for London's rental market, according to estate agency Marsh & Parsons.
Encourage estate owners to release land for affordable homes – RICS
The owners of England's 5,000 biggest country estates should be giving up some of their land to make way for more affordable housing, the RICS has suggested.
Slew of super-prime deals for VanHan
Proving that 2015 definitely wasn't all doom and gloom, Thomas van Straubenzee and Rory Penn's top-end agency VanHan tucked away a raft of major resi deals over the last 12 months, averaging £16m apiece.
Grand Registry: The biggest recorded transactions of 2015
October and November saw another couple of mega-deals added to 2015's official ledger of transactions, although as we all know, most of the really big sales go on behind closed doors...
Crystal Balls 2016: Prime property pundits’ predictions for the year ahead
It's been a tough 12 months for the high-value residential property industry, with a General Election cleaving the year in two, fallout from a major overhaul of the stamp duty system quashing activity,…
All We Want For Christmas: Deconstructing the perfect festive house
Everyone has their own idea of what makes the ideal Christmas pad, but in our book you need an impressive hallway for receiving guests, a proper cook's kitchen, a bar serving top-notch tipples, an epic…
Away They All Flue: On the chimneys of England
As Santa Claus prepares to take to the skies tomorrow evening, buying agent Mark Crampton takes a look at some of country's most distinctive chimney architecture, but which is the most suitable for…
Planning nod for rare new-build resi scheme in Bayswater
34 Palace Court project designed by PDP London
Crystal Balls 2016: Property market forecasts from the key residential research units
As another new year looms large, the residential industry’s leading pundits and analysts are unanimous about one thing: the property market is fragmenting, with micro-markets emerging in various locations…
Allsop closes 2015 with bumper Christmas sale
Allsop has closed out 2015 with a £68.4m sale, taking the total amount of resi sold via the auction house this year to over £457m.
Prime global rents post weakest performance in five years
Knight Frank has recorded a 0.9% fall in prime global rents in the year to September, a stark contrast to the 3.4% rise seen a couple of years ago.
Prime London prices end the year up 0.5% but Knightsbridge, Belgravia and Mayfair take a tumble
Prime London property prices dipped by -0.8% in Q4, reports Savills, taking the annual movement to +0.5%.