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Savills raises £52mn in biggest March auction since 2015
One lot received more than 70 bids in 45 seconds
Weekly Showcase: Ten featured prime resi listings
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In Pictures: London’s best new home extensions & improvements
15 projects have been shortlisted for this year's Don’t Move, Improve! competition, which celebrates London's best and most innovative new home extensions and improvements.
Pre-pandemic stability beckons for UK property market as supply levels finally pick up
New listings have been running at 5% above the five-year average in 2022 so far, reports Zoopla, but demand is still at near-record levels - half of all homes where sales were agreed were snapped up within…
Radical overhaul of construction industry needed if UK to have any chance of net zero by 2050 – new research
The industry is fragmented, and the government is introducing initiatives with no consideration for unintended consequences - meeting net zero will simply will not happen without some joined-up thinking,…
In Pictures: Linton Group & KSR Architects complete rare multi-unit new-build scheme in historic Hampstead Village
The site of a former nurses’ home has been redeveloped into 17 new apartments following a six-year planning process
Required Reading: Lifting the secrecy behind offshore companies
Julie Howard explains how the new rules around overseas entities will work in practice, and why the idea of hiding behind asset holding vehicles is becoming a thing of the past
Westminster’s important new building rules ‘place sustainability at the heart of the built environment’
New guidance for property developers "will ensure the highest possible proportion of development requiring planning permission achieves net zero carbon emissions," says Westminster Councillor Matthew Green.
Knight Frank expands super-prime lettings offering in the Home Counties
New department head Jamie-Leigh Harvey has achieved record prices on a number of flagship rentals across the region
Wales puts the squeeze on second home owners
Council tax bills to soar by up to 300% under new rules coming in next April
Foxtons confirms first profit in five years; opts to keep mortgage arm Alexander Hall
London estate agency Foxtons made an £8.9mn operating profit in 2021 - up from £1.9mn in 2020, and from a £700k loss in 2019.
In Pictures: Accouter-designed townhouse aims to ‘set a new level’ in Belgravia
The Fitzrovia-based studio has spent two and a half years remodelling a five-storey residence near Sloane Square and installing a ‘unique, elegant gender-neutral scheme’