Location: Prime Central London
Under Offered: A tale of two markets
The real world's not like the headlines so don't believe the hype, says our resident doer upper Alan Page, as serendipity gets the better of sales spiele in SW3.
Forecast Watch 2014: PCL +3.5%; UK +4.4% – Strutt & Parker
Next year's looking alright for the prime property market, thinks Strutt & Parker, but then it all goes a bit sorry. This year's +6% price performance in PCL will be followed by a 3.
Artists in Residence: Integrating contemporary art into new developments
Londonewcastle's Robert Soning on finding the right space and the importance of his firm's latest acquisition...
London councils challenge office-to-resi rights
Camden, Islington, Lambeth and Richmond councils are limbering up for a High Court challenge to permitted development rights that allow the conversion of office space to residential use.
Artists and architects draw London for construction aid charity
Bill Hanway - Nicholas Hawksmoor’s Christ Church
Understanding affordable housing provision in prime London
Within the context of prime and super-prime residential development, affordable housing is a complex matter and one that most developers will need to address at some point or another.
Elizabeth House decision called in for review
Air-punching from English Heritage and UNESCO; not so much from London & Regional Properties and Chelsfield.
Fine & Country opens 7th Surrey office
Fine & Country has opened its seventh office in Surrey, on St Judes Road, Englefield Green. Paul Garrod is running the show, which will specialise in marketing £800k+ homes.
Resi sales sector “taking no notice of the approaching holiday season” – Cluttons
Over a third of tenants actively looking to buy a home are doing so because they are anxious to pre-empt further price rises, says Cluttons in its latest tome.
Is this the biggest prime resi development opportunity since Chelsea Barracks?
An extraordinary 3.5-acre swathe of prime Chelsea worth up to £1bn could be coming available soon, if the rumours are to be believed this afternoon.
UK has highest property tax rate in the developed world: The full story
Making property taxes fair both politically and economically is no simple task; should tax aim to reduce housing demand or increase housing supply?
Policy Exchange's comprehensive "Taxing Issues?
Great Portland Estates announces Hanover Square joint venture
Great Portland Estates has formed a new 50/50 joint venture with the Hong Kong Monetary Authority to own and develop the Hanover Square Estate in Mayfair.