Location: South East
Topland lends £100m in Q3
The property investment group headed up by Sol Zakay - Topland - has deployed £100m-worth of loans in the last three months alone, as its focus on high-profile prime resi development projects continues.
Prime country house prices rise at fastest rate in over three years
There's more good signs coming out of the prime country market, with Q3 delivering the fastest pace of price growth in over three years according to Knight Frank.
Is this Britain’s answer to Beverly Hills?
Home to Middle Eastern royalty, international business tycoons and a host of famous faces including Sir Bruce Forsyth, Formula One's Eddie Jordan and golfer Ernie Els, the Wentworth Estate in Virginia…
Booming private rental sector needs £200bn investment – Savills
The private rented sector is ballooning, with Savills estimating that, by 2018, 5.7 million in England (one in five households) will be renting in the private sector.
Catchment If You Can: Top junior schools chalk up 53% property premium
Savills has been number-crunching the latest stats from within the UK's prime regional markets and it looks like we've just seen positive growth across the whole of England for the first time in two and…
Money Where Your Mouth Is: Haute cuisine heats up house prices
A top notch restaurant can "make a good location even better," raising property prices by up to 20% according to some research by Mayfair's Wetherell estate agency and Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings.
Devonshire House, One Mayfair Place up for sale
Devonshire House, One Mayfair Place - a 175,000 sq ft office block on Piccadilly - has been put on the market for £400m++ with Strutt & Parker and H2SO.
Exchanges up 40% in Jackson-Stops’s “best summer since the recession”
Jackson-Stops & Staff's new Chairman Nick Leeming has been trumpeting the firm's "best summer since the recession".
The country-spanning, 40-office network has certainly been in the deals;
Surge in off-market deals, second-home buyers and (finally) some quality London stock
Buyers are returning to the prime market in their droves across the UK, according to Knight Frank's acquisition arm The Buying Solution.
Knight Frank to hit $1bn turnover in 2017
Knight Frank LLP, the self-proclaimed "world’s leading independent property advisor", has had a rather good year.
New Soho scheme for Oakmayne Bespoke
Developer Oakmayne Bespoke has snapped up a Grade II listed townhouse on Soho Square for £8m, which it plans to convert into five ultra-prime residences.
August’s 100 priciest property transactions
Exactly the same number (1,170) of £1m+ properties were sold in August as in July, according to the latest set of Price Paid data from the Land Registry.