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One in four construction sites, including nearly a third of prime basement conversions, are unsafe – HSE
One in four construction sites in London and across the South East would fail health and safety checks, according to the Health & Safety Inspectorate (HSE), with basement conversions in prime London being…
London Square exchanges on £50m Richmond resi scheme
Resi developer London Square has exchanged on Royal Star & Garter Homes' historic Grade II listed Richmond Home in West London, conditional on winning planning consent to convert the 181,543 sq ft building…
The Doer-Upper Diary: A cracking party
It's not the neighbours that are driving doer-upper Alan Page up the (party) wall in Kensington; it's the surveyors...
Prime Property of the Week
Lateral panache in the pleasure grounds of the global elite...
Lowndes Square, Knightsbridge £16.5m
Architects’ fees fall by 40%
This is not a good time to be an architect. 68 practices have gone bust already this year, according to Architect's Journal;
Austerity Auction: Greek consul’s Holland Park pile smashes guide price
A quick update on our "Austerity Auction" story from last month;
Shaking the boughs of the property tree
As Lonres releases its Spring Residential Review, William Carrington urges the government to be careful of playing fast and loose with the property industry...
Confidence Blossoms in PCL: Properties are selling faster, with fewer price reductions and fall-throughs
The Lonres Spring Residential Review reports a real air of optimism blossoming through the prime central market, with a doubling in the number of new instructions unable to stifle a 9% rise in the average…
Chelsea Art Fair Preview
After 17 years, the Chelsea Art Fair has had a bit of a brush up;
£1m boost for charity as Devon estate goes under the hammer
A leading charity has received over £1m after a Devon estate was successfully sold at auction, for £200,000 above the guide price.
West End rental deals up 110% – LDG
Meanwhile, reports filtering in from one agency suggest it's been a rip-roaring start to 2013 for the West End rental market - in terms of volume anyway.
Phene rises as resi development plans shot down
Controversial plans to turn one of Chelsea's best-loved pubs into a super-prime home seem to have disappeared down the hatch today, as delirious reports filter in of the Phene Arms' purchase by the City…