Location: United Kingdom
‘Non-doms’ blamed for closure of Knightsbridge institution
Adding more fuel to the "lights-out London" debate, the owner of Knightsbridge restaurant Racine, which closed down last week, has laid the blame squarely on "non-doms" after reporting an exodus…
Instinctif buys up London property PR firm
Wriglesworth, one of the capital's top property PR agencies, has been snapped up by global consultancy Instinctif Partners to create a 90-strong UK team.
Instinctif Partners & Wriglesworth
Ballymore in £2.2bn joint venture with Malaysian investors
Big-spending Malaysian investors have backed Ballymore Group to develop three resi projects in London worth a whopping £2.2bn.
The Embassy Gardens lobby
Royal Mail surplus sites valued at £1bn
City fund managers reckon the value of Royal Mail's portfolio of redundant sorting offices and sites has doubled in under two years.
Mount Pleasant sorting office
Pickles cracks down on unauthorised development
Council planning teams across the UK are being tooled up with a £1m war chest to stop unruly developers and homeowners in their tracks.
Pickles on the job
Chestertons moves into Saudi Arabia with a ‘significant new investment’
Chestertons has amped up its Middle Eastern presence with a joint venture with Saudi-based MEDAD Valuation International (part of the Najeeb Abdullatif Alissa Holding Company).
New flagship office for Waterfords
Home Counties estate agent Waterfords has moved into a new "flagship office" in Fleet after out-growing its old space.
Royal Borough nudges listed building owners
Kensington & Chelsea council is "reminding" owners of the borough's listed buildings about their responsibilities, sending out a mailshot to all listed homes and launching a new web page .
Make appoints first female board member
Make, the architecture practice behind projects including St James's Market and Rathbone Square, has appointed its first female board member.
Foster + Partners’ Shoreditch skyscraper gets off to a flyer
Units at Principal Tower, London's first resi tower to be designed inside and out by Foster + Partners, have been selling like locally-sourced artisan hotcakes.
‘Red Baron’ swoops in to rescue Apethorpe Hall
A 48-bedroom Jacobean mansion, described by Simon Thurley as "by far the most important country house to have been threatened with major loss through decay since the 1950s", has been bought by a French…
UK developer strikes £300m deal to build English mansions in the Middle East
A British housebuilder has been signed up to deliver £300m worth of luxury resi across the Middle East, including a take on Kensington's super-prime Phillimores development.