Location: United Kingdom
RBKC considers policy change after hundreds of homes ‘lost’ to de-conversions
Council taking a long hard look at its stance on amalgamations
Catchment If You Can: Elite US school eyes SW London base
South west London could be in line for a major HNW selling point if the rumours are true about a top US school going on the hunt for a site in the capital.
Global luxury property markets in 2016: Sydney on top
Sydney will see the biggest rises in residential property prices of any prime global city this year, says Knight Frank, while Hong Kong, Singapore and Paris are all likely to see price drops.
Slew of super-prime deals for VanHan
Proving that 2015 definitely wasn't all doom and gloom, Thomas van Straubenzee and Rory Penn's top-end agency VanHan tucked away a raft of major resi deals over the last 12 months, averaging £16m apiece.
Uncertainty reigns in PCL after ‘disorientating’ tax changes
It sounds like vendors are starting to get the message that the market in prime central London has undergone something of a sea change.
Number of Londoners leaving the capital hits eight-year high
Londoners bought 63,000 homes outside the capital last year, a chunky increase on 2014's figure of 38,000.
In Numbers: Knight Frank’s top property stats from 2015
After another year of churning out more graphs and analysis than everyone else combined, Knight Frank's research team picks its favourite prime property stats from the last 12 months...
Post-Christmas divorces to ‘jump start’ 2016 lettings market
A recovery is on the cards for London's rental market, according to estate agency Marsh & Parsons.
Encourage estate owners to release land for affordable homes – RICS
The owners of England's 5,000 biggest country estates should be giving up some of their land to make way for more affordable housing, the RICS has suggested.
Buy-to-let SDLT surcharge consultation: Now open
The government cheekily chose a Bank Holiday Monday in the middle of the holiday season to launch a consultation into its scheme to charge an extra 3% stamp duty levy on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
Grand Registry: The biggest recorded transactions of 2015
October and November saw another couple of mega-deals added to 2015's official ledger of transactions, although as we all know, most of the really big sales go on behind closed doors...
All We Want For Christmas: Deconstructing the perfect festive house
Everyone has their own idea of what makes the ideal Christmas pad, but in our book you need an impressive hallway for receiving guests, a proper cook's kitchen, a bar serving top-notch tipples, an epic…