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Green light for Lodha & MSMR on Grosvenor Square
Westminster Council has finally given Lodha Group its blessing to convert the Canadian High Commission in Mayfair into 41 top-end apartments.
OnTheMarket.com to go live on 26th January 2015
Agents' Mutual has confirmed the launch date of new property portal OnTheMarket.com: 26th November 2015.
The launch will be publicised with "a comprehensive and heavy-weight media campaign...
‘London’s property market has shifted in favour of buyers’ – Hanover Private Office
The focus of the capital's property market has shifted "from bubbles to cooling conditions," says multi-family office Hanover, as more vendors cut asking prices and price growth shifts from astronomical…
New recruit for Watership Property
Independent buying outfit Watership Property has hired former Savills Associate Tania Thompson to cover the key Cotswolds and Oxfordshire patch.
Seal of approval for Weston’s stately Jacobean scheme
Weston Homes has scored listed building approval for its "most ambitious scheme" yet: turning a quite magnificent Jacobean mansion in Kent into 36 apartments.
Crunch Time: Inside the skills shortage threatening PCL’s future growth
Nowhere is the construction skills shortage being felt more keenly than in London's prime resi sector. Build costs are rising, projects are stalling and in some cases, not even starting.
FORECAST: 2015 to be ‘reverse image’ of 2014 – Winkworth
Next year will mirror this year's market, says Winkworth, with May's election as the pivot point between a quiet first half and a following rally.
CASE STUDY: From degenerate pub to Chelsea des res
Gary Linton has managed to turn a grotty drinking establishment on the Fulham Road into a boutique apartment scheme that's selling like proverbial hotcakes.
Atelier unveils two mega-mansions in Highgate
Super-prime projects on Bishopswood Road
Cornish resort to ban new holiday homes?
St Ives, the properly lovely artists' retreat / fishing town / home of a Tate in Cornwall, is drawing up plans that might stop the construction of any new holiday homes.
‘Cream comes off the cake’ as prime outer London prices fall
After 40 months of on-the-trot growth, prices in prime outer London have finally seen a fall, dropping by 0.2% in October according to the latest from Knight Frank.
RBKC dishes out record number of planning enforcement notices
RBKC's Planning Enforcement Team has been out in force in 2014, issuing an unprecedented number of notices on developments right across the borough.