Location: Prime Central London
Autumn bloom for prime London
With just six more weeks of marketing left until Christmas, some more evidence things have been hotting up in the prime central London sales market; a whopping 36 per cent upsurge in the number of transactions…
Life on Top (part two)
In the second of a two-part special feature, Dan Crofton looks at penthouse trends and buyer expectations
Clive Aslet on Thomas Cubitt: 21/11/2012
Great British institutions Clive Aslet and Peter York will be discussing the work of Thomas Cubitt, one of London's key architectural figures and master builder of Belgravia and Pimlico, at an event hosted…
New build values in Mayfair “to triple by 2050”
Shrill accusations and sullen aftermaths - who doesn't love a good old-fashioned "game" of Monopoly? Well it seems the geniuses behind the boardgame were also purveyors of uncannily reliable real estate…
Lifetime Achievement Award for £3bn Man Abrahmsohn
Trevor Abrahmsohn, founder of Glentree Estates, "Lord of Bishop's Avenue" and, more importantly, PrimeResi columnist, scooped the Lifetime Achievement Award at last night's glitzy Spear's Wealth Management…
Boom in residential conversions as planning approvals hit record levels
The number of office sites being converted to domestic accommodation is set to rise significantly over the next two years - primarily in Central London - driven by the continuing rise in residential values,…
Life on Top (part one)
Penthouse at Imperial Wharf (Chesterton Humberts)
In the first of a two-part special feature, Dan Crofton looks at the stratospheric rise of the penthouse and what it means to buyers today
Mayfair penthouse sells for £19.5m (a 400% price increase in 16 years)
A penthouse on Park Lane has just sold for £19.5m, breaking the £4,000 per square foot barrier and achieving a 400 per cent appreciation since being sold by the same agent in 1996.
@HenryPryor’s Top Tweeters
The busiest man on Twitter, Henry Pryor (@henrypryor), has been hard at work compiling a list of the top (or at least most active) property agent Tweeters
Rise in number of property millionaires
43 per cent of properties in prime areas of London are now worth £1m, up from 34.6 per cent a year ago, according to new research from Marsh & Parsons.
New “Gateway to Southwark” planned
Global asset management firm The Carlyle Group is planning to go big in Southwark: the firm is due to submit detailed plans for a 1
Interview: Nicola Lavictoire, Chesterton Humberts PRIME Property Sourcing
Chesterton Humberts waded into the property finding arena last week, announcing the launch of a new Property Sourcing service that goes head-to-head with London buying agents, including Knight Frank’s T…