Location: Prime Central London
Crunch Time: Inside the skills shortage threatening PCL’s future growth
Nowhere is the construction skills shortage being felt more keenly than in London's prime resi sector. Build costs are rising, projects are stalling and in some cases, not even starting.
FORECAST: 2015 to be ‘reverse image’ of 2014 – Winkworth
Next year will mirror this year's market, says Winkworth, with May's election as the pivot point between a quiet first half and a following rally.
CASE STUDY: From degenerate pub to Chelsea des res
Gary Linton has managed to turn a grotty drinking establishment on the Fulham Road into a boutique apartment scheme that's selling like proverbial hotcakes.
Prime Property of the Week: Phenomenal Phillimore
Phillimore Gardens, Kensington
£15m
Domvs London announces joint venture and US expansion
Luxury developer teams up with New York-based investment boutique Junius Real Estate Partners
Cornish resort to ban new holiday homes?
St Ives, the properly lovely artists' retreat / fishing town / home of a Tate in Cornwall, is drawing up plans that might stop the construction of any new holiday homes.
‘Cream comes off the cake’ as prime outer London prices fall
After 40 months of on-the-trot growth, prices in prime outer London have finally seen a fall, dropping by 0.2% in October according to the latest from Knight Frank.
RBKC dishes out record number of planning enforcement notices
RBKC's Planning Enforcement Team has been out in force in 2014, issuing an unprecedented number of notices on developments right across the borough.
Letter from the Home Counties: When only the best of the best will do
'Best of the best' instructions are still selling - and breaking records - in Surrey and Berkshire, says Garry Collins, but next year's spring market may not end up flourishing until the summer...
In Depth: On residential property price statistics across the globe
The Bank for International Settlements - the bank of the world's central banks - aims to keep global finances on as even a keel as possible.
FORECAST: Mansion tax could mean a 10% fall for superprime London next year – Savills
Savills has issued forecasts for two scenarios for the prime market in 2015: one with and one without a mansion tax. It makes quite a difference...
Irwin Mitchell boosts HNW offering with two new acquisitions
HNW advisory Berkeley Law and its separate resi property and conveyancing business, Berkeley Hurrell, have been snapped up by legal services giant Irwin Mitchell.