Location: Prime Central London
Black Brick expands buying team
Buying agency Black Brick has hired Jessica Parkinson as its newest consultant.
What Lies Beneath: Why basement developments are nothing to be scared of
Changes in planning policy may make things trickier for niche developers and private clients, but opportunities for single dwelling basement developments are still worth seizing, says Sheila McCusker...
Devonshire House, One Mayfair Place up for sale
Devonshire House, One Mayfair Place - a 175,000 sq ft office block on Piccadilly - has been put on the market for £400m++ with Strutt & Parker and H2SO.
Aviva moves out of London prime
Aviva Investors is moving away from prime London property investments, with the firm's Property Trust manager Philip Nell arguing that overseas money "has pushed prices to ridiculous levels in our view
PCL market plateauing as capital values calm – WA Ellis
Prime central London's ever-upward trajectory seems to be coming to an end, especially in the £6-15m bracket, according to the latest from WA Ellis.
Exchanges up 40% in Jackson-Stops’s “best summer since the recession”
Jackson-Stops & Staff's new Chairman Nick Leeming has been trumpeting the firm's "best summer since the recession"
Agents’ Mutual to launch next year (ahead of schedule) as over 1,000 offices sign-up
Agents' Mutual, the unnamed estate agency-owned property portal that aims to take down the Rightmove/Zoopla duopoly, has hit its golden number of signed-up offices, and can now "move forward to implementation …
Help to Buy: A buying agent’s view
The government should be addressing why housing is so expensive in the first place, rather than finding a way to fund it, says Camilla Dell..
London steams ahead as transaction volumes reach seven-year high
Strutt & Parker has done a sterling job of reviewing Q3 figures across prime central London, unearthing some eye-catching stats on the volume of deals over the last few months
Surge in off-market deals, second-home buyers and (finally) some quality London stock
Buyers are returning to the prime market in their droves across the UK, according to Knight Frank's acquisition arm The Buying Solution
Green light for Village Green development
It's now a bit easier to build on village greens, thanks to new landowner rights that came in yesterday (1st October 2013)
Planning nod for Southbank’s £1bn high-rise cluster
Carlyle Group's big plans for a "Gateway to Southwark" have been recommended for approval by the Council.