Location: Prime Central London
New consortium enters race for Hyde Park Barracks
The battle for Hyde Park Barracks just got even tastier, with reports of new Middle Eastern-backed consortium entering the fray.
Fringe Benefits: Emerging Prime London outperforms Prime for third year running
Emerging Prime areas in SW London continue to drive some of the best returns on investment, according to Douglas & Gordon, outstripping PCL for the third year on the bounce.
Talk: The Georgian Architecture of Somerset
The honey-hued period architecture of Somerset will take centre stage at The Georgian Group's HQ on Fitzroy Square later this month.
Galliard offloads ‘mini One Hyde Park’ to investor
Property developer Galliard, which formed a major JV with US investment house Cain Hoy late last year, has sold its luxury scheme in Westminster off-market for £28.6m.
Chiswick High Road ‘transformation’ okayed
A plan to regenerate "a substantial section of Chiswick High Road and underutilised sites along Essex Place" with a snazzy-looking resi and mixed scheme has been given the green light by Hounslow's planners.
Mere Portals: On the week when Goliath met David on the internet
Last week's successful launch of OnTheMarket.com demonstrates to the big media groups that agents can do the job just as well, if not better, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
The Collection boosts property management arm
Boutique property buying/property management outfit The Collection LLP has hired Barbara Malcolm as Property Manager, in charge of the firm's burgeoning PCL portfolio.
Westminster spoils Qataris ‘Regent’s Park Palace’ plans
A planning officer from Westminster Council has put the kibosh on the Qatari royal family's efforts to create a 33,000 square foot mansion in Regent's Park.
Wandsworth literary landmark to turn over a new leaf
The Malins Group, the developer behind 2013's Apple Apartments scheme on Baker Street, has lined up another cultural landmark for a prime resi conversion.
Prime Property of the Week: Project of Desire
Stanley Crescent, Notting Hill
£9.5m
The key to successful property development, as we are constantly told, is to remain rational throughout. Don't get carried away. Or bite off more than you can chew.
INTERVIEW: Mark Collins on how CBRE became a resi force to be reckoned with
The man behind CBRE's meteoric rise into the resi big league, Chairman of Residential Mark Collins discusses his ambitions for the business, the most undervalued parts of PCL, and the boutique developers…
Doing a Grosvenor: The Making of Mayfair’s Mount Street
How do you reposition a sleepy backwater into one of the world's top luxury destinations?