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Fenton Whelan hires top interior designer as Creative Director
Georgina Wood will be in charge of coming up with "opulent" and "timeless" interiors across the firm's £500m portfolio of PCL projects
Abu Dhabi picks Northacre to deliver New Scotland Yard scheme
Abu Dhabi-owned BL Development has awarded Northacre the Development Management gig to deliver the landmark 10 Broadway development in Victoria, SW1.
Pricing the Unpriceable: How to value international trophy homes
Redefining the pinnacle of residential real estate is a lofty task, notes Christie’s International Real Estate.
Prime Property of the Week: Brick Bait
Ovington Square
£9.7m (OIEO)
Remember that Hans Place house that grabbed loads of headlines (including ours) for being the most expensive online-only instruction ever at £15.5m last year?
Weakness in PCL demand ‘to continue until at least September’
Six weeks on from the election and the capital's supply and demand levels remain way off-kilter, according to these reports from buying agents on the prime front line...
Green light for TfL’s Grade I HQ-to-resi scheme
Transport for London has been given the go-ahead by Westminster's planners to convert 55 Broadway, its Grade I-listed Charles Holden-designed Art Deco HQ in St James's, into 89 residential units.
17% of estate agency bosses earn less than £25k
Most estate agency partners / directors / business owners earn between £41,000 and £50,000, according to some research by property software people Expert Agents.
Estate agency "boss" salaries
Geography Lesson: Redrawing the property market map
"Many local markets actually have a stronger correlation with a region other than the one in which they are physically located," says Savills' Neal Hudson, as he re-draws the UK property market map.
Crown Estate marks Dukes Court as next stage of St James’s overhaul
The Crown Estate has mooted Dukes Court, a commercial block on the corner of Duke Street St James’s and Jermyn Street, as its next big play in the £500m redevelopment of the St James’s area in central…
Don’t Miss: LFA Open Studios – MSMR Architects
Our pick of the many highlights of this year's London Festival of Architecture has to be a look behind the scenes of one of the capital's top architecture practices.
Grand Registry: The top 50 recorded deals of 2015 so far
Not every property sale gets recorded by the Land Registry - far from it in fact - but of the top fifty most expensive deals that have been lodged so far this year (January to April), only four were…
University Challenge: £400m Ardent Portfolio hits the market
A £400m portfolio of student digs across 12 UK University cities is being offloaded by The International Mutual Fund.