Location: United Kingdom
Electric Boulevard: Plans for Battersea’s new high street revealed
Designs for the next phase of the transformation of Battersea Power Station have been unveiled.
Transaction levels in PCL resale market fall by 10%
Knightsbridge-based agency W.A.Ellis has reported transaction levels in the second-hand PCL market were down by 10% in Q1, compared with the same period last year.
Redrow snaps up former police station for resi conversion
Redrow London has just acquired a Grade II listed former police station in north west London, which it plans to transform into a significant new resi scheme.
Wrong Side of the Tax: How SDLT reshaped London’s prime property market
Believe it or not, it's been two whole years since the stamp duty levied on properties over £2m was ramped up to the eye-watering 7% mark.
Foreign investment quota plans rejected in House of Lords
A controversial proposal to introduce a limit on overseas property sales was unceremoniously shot down in the House of Lords last week.
Lord Bradshaw
Chesterton Humberts hires P1 Communications
Chesterton Humberts has brought in a PR and marketing outfit to champion the work of its in-house research department.
Barometer from latest edition of Chrome (click to download)
Detailed plans approved for Earls Court Village and Empress State Building
Kensington & Chelsea and Hammersmith & Fulham planners have given the first detailed all-clears to Capco's plans for Earls Court.
Fast-track planning court opens its doors
The first hearings at the UK's new specialist 'Planning Court' are getting underway today.
Letter from the Home Counties: The bespoke mansion
Darren Walter launches an unusual £8m proposition in deepest Surrey...
Home Farm in Windlesham
Varsity Blues: Oxford and Cambridge bow to the river
Cambridge's property market has thrashed Oxford's by a good length over the past year, says Knight Frank in a Boat Race-themed bit of research.
Cambridgeshire prices have put in a strong +7.
Prime Property of the Week: Lateral Linking
Lennox Gardens, Knightsbridge, London
£27m
We all know first floor flats are the ones to go for in period buildings. It's that extra volume you get with the high ceilings. And the natural light.
The slow rise of the Chinese buyer
Chinese developers have made their mark in London in the last year with several headline-grabbing deals.