Location: Prime Central London
Industry Reaction: Resi payday as Boles opens plans for office conversions
"Imminent" plans to relax planning regulations to allow the conversion of office blocks into residential units under Permitted Development Rights (reported yesterday here) have got the prime property industry…
Bad press? Go to The Brewery
Effective crisis management can dig you out of the deepest bunker, says William Cash. You just need someone like Matthew Freud and his highbrow journal The Brewery in your corner.
Cash buyers drop by 20%
Stats from Cluttons show that the number of cash buyers in prime central London dropped by a fifth last year, whilst the proportion of mortgaged buyers doubled.
Futurewealth #2: stepping into the communication age
In the second of four in-depth reports, wealth gurus Scorpio Partnership explore how the Futurewealthy are rapidly adopting new technologies, discovering that this select international group has a clear…
Fine & Country jet-sets into Cannes
The haute monde of top agency Fine & Country will wave goodbye to the miserable British weather later, as they head off to the launch of a glamorous new office on the French Riviera.
Homes Work: office-to-resi conversions to be planning-free
Converting offices into residential units will no longer need planning permission if rumours are right about about "radical changes to the English planning system." Let the goldrush begin.
Prime country house buyers left out in the cold
Reports of particularly slim pickings in the prime country house market have been filtering in of late.
Small to medium-sized building firms “on a knife-edge”
More gloom for the construction industry we're afraid.
Triple digit Singapore sales for Battersea Power Station
More than 100 units at London development Battersea Power Station were snapped up by Singaporean property buyers and investors in just one day, in what the developer and agency said were record levels…
Uncertain times for prime property
The ever-excellent Lonres Residential Review indulges in a spot of tealeaf reading to get a steer on what’s likely to happen in the prime property market over the coming 12 months.
Black Brick building up to a record year
No sign of a Blue Monday for buying agency Black Brick, which has reported a raft of new domestic and international client sign-ups already this month (interestingly, all owner-occupiers rather than investors)…
Witzenfeld launches prime acquisition company
There's a new kid in town - well he's actually been around for a while, but high-end residential developer Mark Witzenfeld has just launched Huntsman Property, London’s newest property acquisition company.