Location: Prime Central London
Banda buys up Richmond Brewery site
Developer and search agency Banda has snapped up a prominent former bottling factory in south west London, with designs on a top-end mixed-use scheme.
Race to raise £7m to buy ‘England’s grandest country house’
Heritage charity SAVE is in a race to raise £7m to buy one of Britain's biggest stately homes, the 365-room Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire, as the current owners have called it a day on their "labour…
Feverish Pitch: The Doer Upper’s sales agency ‘beauty’ parade
Five estate agencies are vying for the affections (sales commission) of our resident doer upper, as he sets about putting his Kensington project on the market. But which to choose?
Four years of price rises end as PCL plateaus
That 0% prediction is coming to pass early, as Knight Frank reports no change in prime central London prices during October.
Pipe Dreams: Keeping the habit with private smoking rooms
Smokers are a dying breed, but there’s still a rather valuable 0.1% of HNW homebuyers who want somewhere a bit special to puff away in.
Carrington: It could be a long winter for the resi sales market
Currently, none of the main political parties have a coherent strategy, and this uncertainty is not helping the market at all, says Lonres Chairman William Carrington...
Resi development land values moderate as developers become ‘more selective’
The rate of growth in residential development land values is easing up, says Knight Frank, dropping from +5.6% in Q2 to +3.7% in Q3.
Development land prices rose by a paltry 0.
Inside David Collins’ Kensington home: Designer’s estate goes to auction
Some very pretty things are coming up for auction on 4th November, as Christie's sells off 192 lots from the Kensington home of the late design impresario David Collins.
‘Encouragingly strong’ Phase 3 sales at Battersea Power Station (and one very famous buyer)
It's been an 'encouragingly strong' week of sales down at Battersea Power Station, after another swathe of apartments were made available to pre-registered and existing buyers in London.
INTERVIEW: Nikki Gibbard on Helical Bar’s grand design for the City
Helical Bar's Nikki Gibbard on opportunism, architectural integrity and being responsible for the biggest resi scheme in the City of London since The Barbican...
Chelsea Vs Pimlico: Half the price or double the value?
Despite counting Westminster Abbey and Tate Britain amongst its local amenities, Pimlico remains very much in the shadow of its more fashionable neighbours.
£105bn Chinese investment will be ‘a game-changer’ for UK real estate and infrastucture
The scale and scope of Chinese investment into the UK is changing, with the current sovereign-wealth-heavy model opening up to allow more direct spending and wider scale JVs: today's "trickle" of major…