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Amcorp bags Belgravia apartment block for £45m
Kilmuir House on Ebury Street is right opposite Berkeley's super-prime Ebury Square scheme
High Court slashes estate agent’s ‘outrageous’ money laundering fine
A £169,652 fine imposed on a Northamptonshire estate agency for failings related to money laundering regulation has been ridiculed by a High Court judge, who called the amount "seriously disproportionate",…
Clarity, Certainty & Predictability: A call for forward guidance on property taxes
The Treasury should take a leaf out of the Bank of England's playbook, says RICS' Jeremy Blackburn, and issue forward guidance on property tax policies.
Caan-backed luxury developer Sons & Co in management buyout
Sons & Co, the high-end resi property developer set up by brothers Alexander and Christian Stocker, along with Simon Roberts, has gone out on its own.
Number of single-family offices ‘has doubled’ since 2008
The number of single-family offices in the UK has more than doubled since the financial crash, according to new research.
Wandsworth Council bans ‘dominating’ estate agents’ boards
Estate agents now need to apply for permission to put up advertising boards in Putney, Balham, Clapham Junction and Lavender Hill (maps of affected streets below), after the council waged war on what…
Leeming slams stamp duty surcharge; ‘the only losers will be tenants’
The incoming 3% stamp duty surcharge will fail to deter buy-to-let investors in most parts of the UK, according to one national agency, although it may succeed in making things harder for tenants.
31 Years: Is this the UK’s longest-running super-prime project?
If you thought your development was dragging on a bit, take some comfort in the progress of this stately home scheme in East Sussex.
Battersea Power Station masterplan tweak adds 400 ‘smaller, lower-priced’ homes
New proposals have gone in to switch out one of the three hotels planned at Battersea Power Station for another 400 resi units.
BNP Paribas Real Estate launches its first residential development in London
French property giant BNP Paribas Real Estate has followed up its Google-let first London office development (in King's Cross) with the launch its first residential development on this side of the Channel:…
On Development: Who will be left exposed as the tide goes out?
A heady cocktail of high land prices, escalating construction costs and increasing pressure on sales values is challenging the viability of developments, says TowerEight's Paul Allen, and some firms…
RBKC scraps permitted development rights for basements
The Royal Borough has confirmed it is to remove permitted development rights for all basement extensions from next month.