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Pipe Dreams: Keeping the habit with private smoking rooms
Smokers are a dying breed, but there’s still a rather valuable 0.1% of HNW homebuyers who want somewhere a bit special to puff away in.
Withdrawals and price reductions on the rise as London cools
Not only is the number of properties being withdrawn from sale increasing (12.
Banda buys up Richmond Brewery site
Developer and search agency Banda has snapped up a prominent former bottling factory in south west London, with designs on a top-end mixed-use scheme.
Race to raise £7m to buy ‘England’s grandest country house’
Heritage charity SAVE is in a race to raise £7m to buy one of Britain's biggest stately homes, the 365-room Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire, as the current owners have called it a day on their "labour…
INTERVIEW: Nikki Gibbard on Helical Bar’s grand design for the City
Helical Bar's Nikki Gibbard on opportunism, architectural integrity and being responsible for the biggest resi scheme in the City of London since The Barbican...
Carrington: It could be a long winter for the resi sales market
Currently, none of the main political parties have a coherent strategy, and this uncertainty is not helping the market at all, says Lonres Chairman William Carrington...
Resi development land values moderate as developers become ‘more selective’
The rate of growth in residential development land values is easing up, says Knight Frank, dropping from +5.6% in Q2 to +3.7% in Q3.
Development land prices rose by a paltry 0.
Inside David Collins’ Kensington home: Designer’s estate goes to auction
Some very pretty things are coming up for auction on 4th November, as Christie's sells off 192 lots from the Kensington home of the late design impresario David Collins.
‘Encouragingly strong’ Phase 3 sales at Battersea Power Station (and one very famous buyer)
It's been an 'encouragingly strong' week of sales down at Battersea Power Station, after another swathe of apartments were made available to pre-registered and existing buyers in London.
£105bn Chinese investment will be ‘a game-changer’ for UK real estate and infrastucture
The scale and scope of Chinese investment into the UK is changing, with the current sovereign-wealth-heavy model opening up to allow more direct spending and wider scale JVs: today's "trickle" of major…
‘Wild talk’ of Foxtons founder looking to buy agency back
The Telegraph has speculated that Foxtons' founder Jon Hunt might be considering buying the agency back, seven years after he sold it at the top of the market in 2007.
Dues Diligence: A comparison of international property taxation
In comparison with many other countries, the UK property tax regime is relatively modest, says CBRE in its Global Living report.