Location: United Kingdom
Banner Homes acquisition propels CALA into the UK’s top ten
CALA Group has become one of the UK's top ten housebuilders after snapping up Banner Homes.
“Quantum leap” of Chinese buyers into global gateway cities expected
Property market cooling measures across Asia are driving a new wave of investors overseas, says Andrew Batt from Singapore.
Home Suite Home: Developers capitalise on hotel-to-resi conversions
Demand for luxury stock in London's prime areas continues to surge and developers remain keen to capitalise.
Islamic investment “has become a financial powerhouse in the UK”
Sharia investment is booming around the world but the UK's 10,000 Muslim millionaires "are still limited in their options," says prime central London property investment house LCP.
Room for Squares: Capco launches first new-build resi development
London uber-developer Capital & Counties, the property company behind Covent Garden and Earls Court, is launching its first new-build residential development, Lillie Square in Earls Court, on Thursday.
The (relative) fall of London’s £10m+ market
House prices across the UK rose by 0.6% in February, taking the annual rise to 9.4% says Knight Frank (using Nationwide's data).
In London, prices rose for the 40th month in a row. February's 0.
La Vida Local: Neighbourhood Planning’s southern appeal
Localism - a cornerstone of the Government's planning reformation - is big in the affluent South, but lacks traction in the rest of the country according to research by Turley.
Prime London rents nudge up; “strong growth” on the cards
Rents in prime London nudged up by the smallest of margins - +0.1% - in Q1, according to Savills.
But that's still an improvement on last year's gentle decline; rents are now -0.
Homeowner sentiment up for 12th month in a row
That's 12 in a row for Knight Frank and Markit's House Price Sentiment Survey; the Index has risen again to hit another record high in March.
2013’s Top PCL Performers: Big houses in SW7 & small flats in W1
Values across prime central London have increased by 8.7% over the last 12 months, according to acquisition firm Huntly Hooper, with W14 seeing the biggest price per square foot boost of all.
INTERVIEW: Greenland Group’s GM Wenhao Qian on moving into London
China’s Greenland Group has dived headfirst into the London property market in 2014, with two landmark acquisitions on either side of the capital.
London’s planning slowdown should be of concern – JLL
Developers may be "exceptionally keen" to get on site, but how much of this enthusiasm is translating into completions? JLL takes the temperature of London's development market...