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More luxury resi for Covent Garden as Capco strikes again on Bedford Street
Capital & Counties has continued its "tactical acquisition strategy" in Covent Garden with the bagging of yet another key site.
‘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…
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 .
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
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.
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 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
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).
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.
Power Dressing Rooms: How to fashion a tailored walk-in wardrobe
Alix Lawson of interior architecture and design studio Lawson Robb reveals what makes a top drawer dressing room.
‘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…
Style icon’s penthouse asks £6.95m
Is this the most fashionable apartment on the market right now?