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INTERVIEW: Penny Mosgrove of Quintessentially Estates on going global
MD of property buying advisors Quintessentially Estates talks us through some some of the firm's most noteworthy acquisitions
Thackeray ‘brings Belgravia to Waterloo’
Thackeray Estates says its has brought "Belgravia-quality homes to Waterloo" with its Dover House project by pulling out all the stops with suppliers, including calling in luxury resi's international…
Prime Property of the Week: Super-prime, US-style
Penthouse, 432 Park Avenue, New York
$76.5m (£47.72m)
This is how the USA does super-prime.
Bridging the Gap: How The Thames’ three new bridges can change the prime map
Three new bridges across the Thames "can galvanise their north and south banks" says buying agency Garrington as St James's Riverlight development in Nine Elms welcomes its first residents.
Prime London prices to stay put for the rest of the year as supply levels ‘soar’
It's the end of the rise for prime central London's property prices, says Marsh & Parsons.
Q3 saw prices struggle up by just 0.5% as supply levels jumped by 13%.
Foxtons suffers as sales volumes slump
The second half of this year "will be significantly below levels during the same period last year" warns Foxtons, as its Q3 turnover drops.
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.
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…