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Earls Court Masterplan scoops World Architecture Festival Award
London masterplans featured heavily at this year's World Architecture Awards in Singapore, with both Earls Court and the BBC redevelopment in White City being shortlisted
Help to Buy: A property manager’s view
No matter which way you look at it, Help to Buy can only be positive, says Rupert Collingwood..
£2.5bn wall of resi investment for London’s Docklands
After four years of very little action to speak of, it's all kicking off in London's Docklands after a flurry of "game-changing" resi land deals
Booming private rental sector needs £200bn investment – Savills
The private rented sector is ballooning, with Savills estimating that, by 2018, 5.7 million in England (one in five households) will be renting in the private sector.
Carlyle’s Gateway to Southbank cluster gets go-ahead
Carlyle Group's big plans for a "Gateway to Southwark" have been formally approved by the Council.
International tenants driving London’s rental market
International tenants account for 78% of renters in prime central London, and 56% across the wider capital, according to new research from Hamptons
Homage to Barcelona wins World Interior of the Year 2013
An Spanish apartment designed by David Kohn Architects has beaten 55 other nominations to scoop the top gong at the INSIDE: World Festival of Interiors award ceremony in Singapore.
Catchment If You Can: Top junior schools chalk up 53% property premium
Savills has been number-crunching the latest stats from within the UK's prime regional markets and it looks like we've just seen positive growth across the whole of England for the first time in two and…
The myth of London’s foreign buyers
49% of all £1m+ property sales in prime central London went to foreign-by-nationality buyers in the 12 months to June 2013; only 28% went to non-resident buyers, though, according to a new report by Knight …
The Value of Cash Buyers: A third of property deals now mortgage-free
The proportion, if not the number, of cash property buyers is on the rise, according to a new report from Hamptons. Just over 25% of deals were for cash in 2007; 33% over the past 12 months
Savills’ top 12 big ticket resi development lenders
Lending for resi developments is on the up, according to a new survey from Savills. which identifies the top 12 big sum (£10m+) lenders.
Money Where Your Mouth Is: Haute cuisine heats up house prices
A top notch restaurant can "make a good location even better," raising property prices by up to 20% according to some research by Mayfair's Wetherell estate agency and Richard Caring's Caprice Holdings