Location: Prime Outer London
“Jackpot time” for vendors as 23 buyers vie for each home – Marsh & Parsons
Prime London's property market is kicking right off, with Marsh & Parsons reporting that just shy of half (48%) its properties sold for or in excess of asking price in January, and that over a third (34%)…
Boles swipes at office-to-resi naysayers
Planning Minister Nick Boles has comes out swinging against local authorities that have "an irrational objection" to office-to-resi permitted development rights.
Earls Court on the move as Capco and TfL form JV
Transport for London and developer Capco are all set to agree terms to form a joint venture to bring forward the first phases of Sir Terry Farrell's (award-winning) Earls Court Masterplan.
KFH sets up shop in Clapham
KFH has added another office to its burgeoning network, as the firm's "aggressive" expansion plans continue apace.
New Resi Investment Director for Chesterton Humberts
Chesterton Humberts has appointed Paul Belson as its new Residential Investment Director.
Should we be applying punitive taxes to empty homes?
Rather than complaining and propagating the confiscation of empty homes, commentators should be applying their energies to making the planning process efficient, less political and more productive, says…
London Square buys Parsons Green office-to-resi site
Developer London Square has bought pretty niftily-located site at 100 New Kings Road in Parsons Green with plans to turn the office block into 25 residential units.
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Third of mansions on Billionaires’ Row “standing empty”
Edward Snowden News, or The Guardian as it used to be known, has been poking around on The Bishops Avenue in North London and discovered that quite a few of the mansions along there aren't actually being…
Battersea Power Station looks to bolster sales team
We all know the long-awaited redevelopment of Battersea Power Station is creating oodles of new homes (3500 or thereabouts at the last count), but how would you like a shot at shifting some of them?
Is this London’s next property investment hotspot?
We've all heard a lot about the rise of South-of-the-River, what with Nine Elms and Battersea Power Station, One Tower Bridge, the Ram Brewery and more...
Growing Underground: The 2.5 acre farm 100ft under London
There are plans afoot to create a 2.5 acre working farm in disused air raid tunnels under the Northern Line in London.
Tallest resi tower in London completes as English Heritage questions “fundamental change afoot”
There's over 200 20-storey-plus towers planned for London over the next two decades, according to English Heritage's latest predictions, which neatly coincide with the news that the tallest resi structure…