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Savills’ ‘biggest ever’ auction raises £78mn
Agency reports ‘frenzied’ bidding at record-breaking July event, as lots including a unique sea fort went under the hammer.
Super-Prime Deal Digest: Surveying London’s trophy home sales in 2022 so far
2022 is shaping up to be a vintage year for London’s super-prime market, with over £1bn worth of £10mn-plus properties traded since January;
Elephant & Castle resi block shortlisted for the Stirling Prize
The RIBA Stirling Prize is Britain's most coveted architecture award.
PCL agency launches invitation-only microsite for trophy home listings
Rokstone will be showcasing £20mn-plus instructions via a classified extension of its main website.
Talking Heads: How fast will the property market slow?
"There is no doubt that there is a cool breeze blowing in the London market,” says Roarie Scarisbrick of buying agency Property Vision - but the consensus amongst 21 prime property pundits canvassed…
Annual house price growth climbs to +12.8% – UK HPI
The latest official house price index tells of a 1.2% monthly increase for the average UK home in May, up from a 0.4% rise in the same period last year.
Mapped: Areas with the highest (& lowest) daily property price growth since the start of the pandemic
Zoopla estimates that the average UK home has seen its value climb by £48 every day since March 2020 - but some areas have seen significantly higher growth of up £106, while the value of many London…
Landmark Richmond Hill campus hits the market at £25mn
‘Incredible’ five-acre site is being sold off by the The American Institute for Foreign Study.
Contemporary reinvention of a period farmyard creates ‘a house of rare distinction’ in Hampshire
In Pictures: A listed 17th-century farmhouse has been joined to an 18th-century threshing barn via a contemporary "architectural intervention" in Hampshire's South Downs, creating an "entirely unique"…
Valuation Viewpoint: Eating Cardboard
The signs all point to hard times around the corner, says James Wyatt, although London should maintain its ‘safe haven’ status.
London’s luxury property boom continues as super-prime deals hit £1bn in 2022 so far
61 exchanges went through above the £10mn mark from January to the end of last month, the highest H1 total in over a decade.
Buyers & sellers ‘remain confident’ about housing market prospects
We're in a "new normal" property market, says OnTheMarket - "an elevated version of the pre-pandemic market."