Location: United Kingdom
AccorHotels acquires luxury serviced home firm onefinestay for £117m
International hotel operator AccorHotels has bought onefinestay - a high-end and fully-serviced London-based version of Airbnb - for £117m, with big plans to roll out the rental business in more locations…
Grosvenor reshuffles its top table
Grosvenor Group is moving the chairs around its top table, creating a new Group Chief Exec role and promoting two, all with effect from 1st January 2017.
Goldsmith v Khan: London’s leading mayoral candidates’ housing policies head-to-head
With one month to go until polling day, there's still clear water between the leading pair of candidates – Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadiq Khan – and the rest of the Mayoral hopeful pack…
Cain Hoy completes on landmark South Audley Street acquisition
Developer Cain Hoy has finalised its purchase of a significant chunk of Mayfair's South Audley Street.
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£1.4bn merger creates ‘a new force’ in UK resi investment
Qatari Diar, APG and Delancey have pooled resources to create a gigantor for the Private Rented Sector with ambitions "to become the leading player in the delivery of professionally managed homes in London…
Howard Kennedy resi head joins Winckworth Sherwood
Law firm Winckworth Sherwood has bolstered its residential sales team with the hire of Jodie Campbell as partner.
Prefabulous: Britain’s most expensive Huf Haus hits the market
There's only around 200 examples of the Huf Haus across the UK, and someone's managed to combine exacting German engineering with a prize position in St George's Hill to create what's believed to be…
RBKC mulls futuristic mansion block extension scheme
Plans to extend a classic Victorian mansion block have caused a right kerfuffle in the Royal Borough.
Urban land values outperform in multi-speed market
The UK is seeing a highly regionalised housing market reflected in a multi-speed development land market, with urban brownfield sites powering ahead of greenfield and PCL.
House prices have risen by 47,000% during the Queen’s lifetime
To mark and show respect for Her Majesty the Queen's 90th birthday on 21st April, estate agency Jackson-Stops & Staff has worked out that house prices have risen by 47,000% during her lifetime.
Strutt & Parker to open up in South Ken as expansion continues
Strutt & Parker has decided to open up a branch in swanky South Kensington.
New St James’s HQ for the Crown Estate
The Crown Estate is moving its London operations to a new base in St James's.