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17% of estate agency bosses earn less than £25k
Most estate agency partners / directors / business owners earn between £41,000 and £50,000, according to some research by property software people Expert Agents.
Estate agency "boss" salaries
Geography Lesson: Redrawing the property market map
"Many local markets actually have a stronger correlation with a region other than the one in which they are physically located," says Savills' Neal Hudson, as he re-draws the UK property market map.
Crown Estate marks Dukes Court as next stage of St James’s overhaul
The Crown Estate has mooted Dukes Court, a commercial block on the corner of Duke Street St James’s and Jermyn Street, as its next big play in the £500m redevelopment of the St James’s area in central…
Weakness in PCL demand ‘to continue until at least September’
Six weeks on from the election and the capital's supply and demand levels remain way off-kilter, according to these reports from buying agents on the prime front line...
Green light for TfL’s Grade I HQ-to-resi scheme
Transport for London has been given the go-ahead by Westminster's planners to convert 55 Broadway, its Grade I-listed Charles Holden-designed Art Deco HQ in St James's, into 89 residential units.
Grand Registry: The top 50 recorded deals of 2015 so far
Not every property sale gets recorded by the Land Registry - far from it in fact - but of the top fifty most expensive deals that have been lodged so far this year (January to April), only four were…
LonRes unveils brand new look
Data platform LonRes has revealed a top-to-toe rebrand this morning.
Berkeley closes in on £180m ‘Gateway to central London’ site
Tony Pidgley's Berkeley Group is said to be closing in on a deal to acquire the 2.7-acre West End Green site on Edgware Road.
Hot or Not: World cities ranked by real estate investment giant
Which of the world's major real estate markets are currently worth investing in, or merely poking at with the other end of a barge pole?
Rent Rage: The secrets of an unhappy landlord-tenant relationship
High-end London lettings agency EJ Harris has trawled through its archive of client-tenant paperwork to draw up a list of things that are most likely to cause friction between landlords and tenants in…
UK construction industry needs to find another 1,000,000 workers by 2020 – EC Harris
Consultancy firm EC Harris has slammed the UK's tackling of the current housing crisis, arguing that we should be focusing on access to labour and money, rather than planning and land availability.
‘Political certainty’ drives asking prices to a new high
"The unexpected political certainty has helped to fuel a post-election price surge," says Rightmove, as average asking prices on the portal have jumped by nearly 3% in a month.