Location: Prime Central London
Rippon sketches out ‘palatial and stately’ intent for Hyde Park Barracks
Developer Bruce Rippon and QFT Architects have outlined some ground-breakingly old school ideas for one of prime central London's most exciting residential development prospects.
Tapping In: How much value can another bathroom add?
Apart from convenience, what can a new ensuite bathroom add to your average £1.6m property in London?
When will HNWs finally conclude that London’s not worth it?
It might be no bad thing that last year's stamp duty overhaul puts paid to the era of gazumping, sealed bids and garages being sold for millions, says Will Hollest, but what message about London does…
PCL prices down 4% in Q4 as SDLT changes ‘subdue sentiment’
Savills has summed up 2014 as "a year of two halves" in the capital's prime resi market, with prices rising by +4.9% in the first six months before dropping off by -2.2%.
Exhibition: The architect and the client in days of yore
A new exhibition, Building a Dialogue: The Architect and the Client, at the Sir John Soane’s Museum will explore the "delicate, complex and sometimes difficult" relationship between clients and architects,…
Hurford Salvi Carr sells £12m Tech City apartment block
Hurford Salvi Carr had a busy festive season, what with opening a new branch on City Road and shifting this freehold monster by Silicon Roundabout.
UK’s bridging loan market triples in under four years
When provider West One started charting the scale of the UK's bridging loan market in 2011, gross annual lending of this type stood at a mere £0.8bn;
The Return of the Gazunder: London’s new market paradigm
There's a "new paradigm" in the London market, notes Douglas & Gordon, after supply levels charged by 60% over the last year while demand slipped by 30%.
New appointments at The Buying Solution
A top member of Knight Frank's sales team has been named as The Buying Solution's new London Office Head.
New price record for Belgravia as £46m Chesham Place deal goes public
One of the biggest deals in the capital last year has come to light after cropping up on Land Registry records.
Bulgari penthouse sale crowns £120m year for VanHan
VanHan - Thomas van Straubenzee and Rory Penn's super-prime advisory firm - had a particularly strong 2014 by all accounts;
Ridgeford puts in plans to ‘repair a hole’ in Marylebone
Ridgeford Properties has handed in its planning application to create an entire new block on the Moxon Street car park site behind Marylebone High Street.