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Private housing drives construction growth
"A sharp rise" in private housing activity has pushed up construction workloads at the fastest rate since 1994, says the RICS.
Quintessentially Estates unveils new branch and major expansion plans
Top-end acquisition outfit Quintessentially Estates has cut the ribbon on its latest sun-soaked outpost and revealed plans for a significant expansion of the business in 2015.
Buy-to-let Index launches; shows that ‘BTL is not always a great investment’
EC3, WC1 and WC2 are the top three postcodes in the UK for buy-to-let investors, reveals LendInvest in its inaugural Buy-To-Let Index.
PCL sales volumes down by over a quarter on last year (but don’t panic, it’s ‘just a correction’)
Not only has the number of deals tanked, but the total value of all the properties sold across Knightsbridge, Belgravia, Chelsea, South Ken, Fulham, West Chelsea, Kensington and Notting Hill during Q3…
Transactions numbers drop by nearly 5%
Transactions dropped by nearly 5% between August and September, according to the latest batch of stats from HMRC.
The seasonally adjusted estimate of the number of residential transactions fell by 4.
JLL backs new top council tax band
JLL, which recently teamed up with WA Ellis, has come out swinging at Labour's latest plans for a Mansion Tax, choosing to back the Lib Dem's modified version - a "pragmatic and deliverable" new top Council…
Roof of Life: Battersea Power Station’s roof garden in pictures
"The crowning jewel" of Foster + Partners' section of Battersea Power Station Phase 3 is a 355 metre long roof garden complete with a "dense forest" and allotments, 14 storeys up, designed by New York's…
Titlestone hires trio to boost southern reach
Oaktree Capital-backed resi development lender Titlestone Property Finance has made three hires to its lending team in an effort to expand its operations in the south of England.
£15.5m Hans Place house becomes UK’s most expensive online-only instruction
A 5385 square foot end-of-terrace on one of London's most sought-after turnings has just smashed the record for the UK's most expensive online-only listing.
Diplomatic Envy: How much are London’s embassies really worth?
From Russia's Harrington House to Saudi Arabia's stately pile on Charles Street (below), the embassy buildings of London have been valued at a combined total of £4,000,000,000, according to some fascinating new…
British renters come home to prime Surrey
UK nationals have overtaken US tenants as the dominant force in Virginia Water and Wentworth's rental market for the first time in three years, according to stats from local agent Barton Wyatt.
South Bank Show: Wanda unveils One Nine Elms
Here's how Wanda One's Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates-designed One Nine Elms project - which officially launches on Thursday - is eventually going to look.