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Disaster at Finchatton and Abu Dhabi’s Grosvenor Square scheme
The former US Navy building at 20 Grosvenor Square, which was bought by the Abu Dhabi Investment Corporation and Finchatton in June last year for £250m for conversion into luxury apartments, partially…
New Sales & Marketing Director for Mount Anvil
Developer Mount Anvil (the firm behind schemes like Dollar Bay in Canary Wharf, The Landau in Fulham and The Lexicon in Islington) has hired a new Sales and Marketing Director.
INTERVIEW: Gary Hersham on why he said yes to BBC2’s ‘Under Offer’
Co-head of super-prime Beauchamp Estates - made quite an impression
Asking prices reach new records across the South as averages smash 2007’s high
Asking prices have reached brand new record heights in all four southern regions (Greater London, South East, South West and East Anglia), says Rightmove, after reporting an average 2.
LCP offers fund to tap pensioners’ pots
Residential investment outfit London Central Portfolio is looking to help the aged in the wake of the George Osborne's pension reformation last month.
JLL launches City & East London resi arm
Global property giant JLL has launched a new team to tap into the resi frenzy going on in the City, City Fringe, Canary Wharf and East London.
Prime urban prices rising twice as fast as rural homes’
Prime country houses prices rose, on average, by 1.9% in the first three months of the year, says Knight Frank, taking the annual increase to +4.5%.
London’s skyline ‘trashed’ by wave of resi towers – Rees
The London skyline is being "trashed" by the wave of residential towers currently shooting up in between Vauxhall and Whitechapel, according to former City planning chief Peter Rees (the chap who incidentally…
First Impressionists: The value of art in property
Anyone who has the money can buy a plane, car or beautifully crafted clothes. Art is individual, says Joe Burns, and it plays a key role in selling today's prime and super-prime properties...
Sales activity reaches six year high, despite no Spring supply bounce – RICS
Surveyors are whooping as Q1 saw the average number of houses sold per chartered surveyor clamber to its highest level in six years, according to the RICS.
Where’s best for long-term real estate investment?
Three Canadian cities - Toronto, Vancouver and Calgary - have taken the top slots in a list of 50 global cities that 'could be the best bet for long-term real estate investment,' drawn up by property behemoth…
Chelsea hospitals battle over Brompton site
The Royal Brompton Hospital's plans to sell-off a 3.