Location: Prime Outer London
Interior Monologue: Can anyone beat Boris (at wiff-waff)?
The Mayor's wicked forehand smash, kissing frogs and being trapped in a penthouse - all part of a day's work when you're starting a luxury interior design company says Alec Watt...
Trading places: Domestic buyer surge for prime property market
Whilst international demand for London's prime properties continues to command headlines, domestic upsizers are rapidly becoming a more prominent force in the market, according to Marsh & Parsons.
New homes department and new address for Savills Chiswick
After a solid ten years in the salubrious suburb of suburbs, Savills Chiswick is trading up to a new base on Turnham Green Terrace next month.
Planning Awards
The Tenth London Planning Awards are building up to a climactic finish this week, with the capital's standout projects due to be celebrated at a ceremony at City Hall on Thursday.
Prime Trends: South East Asian buyers
Fitzroy Place has proved exceptionally popular with South East Asian buyers
Demand for resi new-build is sky high and rising.
Banda builds on Battersea power
Edo Mapelli Mozzi
Kensington-based search, acquisition and development management firm Banda Property has purchased and secured planning on two major sites in hotly-tipped Battersea, SW 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…
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…
Two more major resi schemes for Barratt Developments
Barratt Developments has just announced another two major resi projects in London.
Futurewealth #1: the digital world of the Futurewealthy
In the first of four in-depth reports, wealth gurus Scorpio Partnership explore how the world’s wealthy are engaging with new technologies and how they spend their time online, asking what role they…
Prime Trends: French buyers
The introduction of stringent adverse tax legislation by Francois Hollande has triggered an exodus of wealthy French nationals, buying homes outside of France.
Up to 40% of purchases in the South East are buy-to-let
The buy-to-let market has picked-up across London and the South-East, according to Kinleigh Folkard & Hayward's new Buy-to-Let Report, and now accounts for 30-40% of all property sales in areas such…