Location: Prime Central London
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?
Southbank’s Palace View site comes to market
A few days after Alchemi announced the sale of its 300,000 square foot scheme in Victoria, another prominent development site has just hit the market in the capital, this time on the Southbank.
Buyers and investors should take advantage of this window of opportunity – Winkworth
2015 is shaping up to be a "challenging" year, says Winkworth, but the agency's PCL teams have nonetheless turned in an "encouraging" January, with decent levels of stock and signs of "more sustainable" price…
How the iceberg home melted away
Homeowners and developers should still be able to build good-sized subterranean extensions, but the days of the mega-basement are dead and buried, says Ed White...
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