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Boris opens door to new top council tax band
Mayor Boris Johnson: "If you compared with a Russian oligarch is paying on his stuccoed schloss in Kensington in annual council tax compared to what such a gentleman might be asked to pay in Paris or New…
Hidden Stanley Peach masterpiece hits the market
A converted electricity sub-station built by the renowned Scottish architect Charles Stanley Peach has just hit the market in Little Venice, with a price tag of £17.95m.
Space Planning: Knight Frank goes galactic
Sub-orbital space travel has the right stuff to "radically shift global property markets," says Knight Frank (and Richard Branson) in its soon-to-launch Wealth Report 2014.
Global Live-Work costs spiral 21% since 2009 as world economies “rebalance”
Hong Kong, London, New York and Paris top a new list of the most expensive cities for live-work spaces from Savills, with all four topping the $100,000 per year mark.
Domestic purchasers dominate London’s Midtown market – CBRE
CBRE Residential (Midtown) - or EA Shaw as it used to be known - turned in a bumper end to the year by all accounts, reporting a 26% year-on-year boost in average values and a near-tripling in the total…
£44m secured for Shepherd’s Bush Market mixed use scheme
"Significant funding" to the tune of £44.
Fit for purpose? London’s new wave of private gyms and spas
Residents of modern luxury developments are increasingly looking for more than an apartment, displaying an appetite for "lifestyle packages" to rival those found in the world's top hotels.
English Rose’s early raid on the warchest
English Rose Estates has gone to town, spending £50m of its £300m warchest in the first two months of the year.
Royal Brompton Rejig: RBKC publishes planning guidance
The draft Supplementary Planning Document for 3.5 acres of the Royal Brompton Hospital’s land - potentially the most valuable PCL development opportunity since Chelsea Barracks - has just gone public.
Marsh & Parsons opens in SheBu
158-year-old estate agency Marsh & Parsons is to open a new office on Askew Road in West London in March, taking its total branch tally in the capital to 19.
Battersea Power Station raises the bar with Phase Two marketing suite
The marketing suite for Battersea Power Station's Phase Two has been hoisted on top of the development in preparation of the units' release on 1st May.
“Only 15%” of London’s new homes go to overseas buyers – BPF
Going by recent headlines, you'd be forgiven for thinking that nearly all of London's new-builds were being hoovered up by foreign investors.