Location: Prime Central London
Dukelease brews up sales in Covent Garden
As developer Dukelease adds the finishing touches to its boutique 29-unit Hop House scheme in Covent Garden, it's reporting that nearly all of the apartments have been sold off-plan.
Listed status bid for Hyde Park Barracks
The Twentieth Century Society has submitted a listing application for Hyde Park Barracks to prevent the demolition of what it calls "a truly remarkable, innovative and singular group of buildings".
Government outlines London’s short-term lettings shake-up
The government has been laying out its plans to ditch the "confusing" restrictions on short-terms lets in the capital.
Westminster’s voter-free developments
Some of prime central London's higher-end residential blocks have no registered voters living in them at all, trumpet Westminster's Labour councillors.
Kebbell starts work on new ‘enclave’ in Chiswick
Developer Kebbell Homes has started building a batch of fairly chunky new homes in leafy Chiswick, west London.
Site Manager Matt Francis on the job
The Big Freeze: Nathalie Hirst on waiting for the top of the market to thaw
For those with nerves of steel and an iron constitution, it's a good time to take a punt, says top buying agent Nathalie Hirst...
£250m Teddington Studios scheme sold to Singaporean developer
Just three months after planning was given to turn one of the UK's best-known film studios into a £250m resi scheme, a buyer has been found in the shape of a listed Singaporean developer with a billionaire…
INTERVIEW: Niccoló Barattieri di San Pietro of Northacre on building the best of the best
In conversation with the CEO of super-prime developer Northacre
SDLT and All That: UK home buying costs Vs the rest of the world
Despite last year's Stamp Duty overhaul ladling some extra bulk on to the cost of buying a top-end home in Britain, the UK's prime buyer's burden is still pretty competitive in the global marketplace,…
Where have prices risen fastest to £2m in the last 20 years?
Under the auspices of working out where long-standing homeowners might be hit hardest by a new mansion tax, Knight Frank has drawn up a list of areas that have seen the biggest property price climbs to…
‘Country house clause’ triumph for Warwickshire mansion
It's not often you see planning granted for new-build houses in open countryside, especially not for ones that sprawl over nearly 10,000 square feet.
Government to ‘clear the attic’ with £6bn property sell-off
Francis Maude has been setting out plans to "clear the attic" by selling off vast swathes of redundant real estate from the government's portfolio.