Location: Prime Central London
TfL on the hunt for development partners to turn it into one of London’s great estates
Rather than just selling them off, Transport for London has come up with a ten-year plan to redevelop 50 sites covering something close to ten million square feet across London - mostly central and fringe -…
Oil prices and Eurozone easing could ‘pop London’s property bubble’
Quantitive Easing in Europe and crashing oil prices could cause central London's property prices to drop by "as much as 50%" warn a couple of people in MoneyWeek.
Balance of Tower: Why London’s development boom could ruin the capital
There's "a cuckoo in the nest" in central London, says property search consultancy Property Vision, as it points out that there's a potentially massive over-supply of high-end resi units being delivered…
Resi development land prices ‘likely to be more subdued’
Land values in prime central London soared by 24% last year, with Q4 delivering a +6.4% says Knight Frank, but greenfield residential development land struggled.
Even taking 2012's lowly +2.
Marsh & Parsons moves East with Shoreditch opening
Marsh & Parsons is starting off a quartet of new office openings slated for this year with a Shoreditch branch.
Foxtons in Q4 sales slump
Foxtons has reported a big drop in sales commission in its latest trading update.
The estate agency confirmed that Q4 sales commission was down by a whopping 25.7% on the same period in 2013.
Clarges Mayfair sales top £250m
British Land has reported notching up £365m worth of resi sales last year, as its Clarges Mayfair scheme continues to bring home the bacon.
The £300m Mansion: JFK’s childhood home tipped to become London’s most expensive
'Totally unique offering' on Princes Gate has planning for a return to single resi use
‘No easier’ to buy a PCL pied-a-terre in 2015 than it was in 2014
The Midtown, City and Docklands patch has witnessed some pretty interesting trends over the last year, reports local agent Hurford Salvi Carr, including pied-a-terres becoming flavour of the month...
Debrett’s 500 Most Influential: Architecture & Design
Etiquette bible Debrett's released its rundown of the 'most influential' people in Britain over the weekend, divvying up 2015's luminaries into 24 categories including sport, journalism, politics,…
OnTheMarket.com goes live: New portal launches on schedule
The new Agents' Mutual portal, OnTheMarket.com, has successfully launched on time, and plans to be the UK's number two property site after Rightmove.
Omni and Prime to transform Chiswick office block
Omni Capital and Prime City have paired up to transform an old office building in Chiswick into 19 luxury apartments.