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Domestic buyers return to PCL
There's been a 'resurgence of domestic activity' in prime central London, says CBRE, as homegrown buyers accounted for 55% of sales in the area in 2013.
Earl-y success for Capco as over 200 Lillie Square flats go in a jiffy
Capco has revealed it has already shifted 204 of the 237 flats in Phase One of its new Lillie Square scheme, with some buyers coughing up well over £1,800 psf for the 'standard' units.
Hamptons goes big on cab-vertising
Hamptons International has decided to head down the branded taxi route this year, wrapping more than fifty 'Sherbet Dabs' as part of its new marketing campaign.
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26 promotions at Carter Jonas (including five new Group Partners)
What a week for Carter Jonas.
Fund opens London super-prime property to SIPP investors
Luxury developer Fenton Whelan and financial outfit Vanbrugh Prime Property have opened up a their specialist top-of-the-top-end London fund to punters with just £60,000 to invest - making it, they ca…
12 under-invested cities that are due to out-pace the prime world
'Real estate is increasingly becoming a mainstream asset class for investors' says Candy & Candy in its latest GPS Report, which identifies 12 cities around the world which have the potential to deliver…
World’s most expensive flat sells – shell & core – in London
Penthouse D in Candy & Candy's One Hyde Park development has just been snapped up for a rumoured £140m
Stock & Shares: Gauging London’s shifting supply levels
A 43% increase in Chelsea, but a 6% drop in South Ken? As Lonres releases its Spring Review, the research team explains what's really going on with those supply levels in central London...
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Prime Property of the Week: Pony Up
The Manton Estate, Wiltshire
£26m (OIEO)
Souper Prime: How air pollution shaped London’s property hotspots
What on earth has smog got to do with the capital's property market in 2014? Quite a lot actually, says Winkworth's CEO Dominic Agace...
Q1 sales boom for Ladbroke Grove, Westbourne Grove and Bayswater
W11-based outfit Crayson has also been totting up the scores from Q1 and reckons ppsf values achieved so far in 2014 across its enviable K&C patch are 14.3% above where they were a year ago.
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‘Notorious’ Rockwood Estate up for auction
The Rockwood Estate - a 360-acre swathe of Surrey including an eleven-bedroom mansion reported to have once been the home of Benazir Bhutto - has been listed for public auction this summer.