Location: United Kingdom
Plans go in for major Edinburgh city centre development
Edinburgh's proposed New Town Quarter could deliver 300 homes, 100,000 sq ft of office space and a hotel on a 5.9 acre former RBS site.
Lloyds downgrades house price forecasts, again
Lender’s base case scenario now shows a decline of 6% for this year, instead of the 5% being forecast in April.
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How the rise of the ‘digital commuter’ is redrawing the property market map
“The Covid crisis has pushed the property market into a hard reset," says Jonathan Hopper of Garrington Property Finders.
Showtime for marquee units at Television Centre
Collection of eleven premium and penthouse apartments at Stanhope's west London mega-scheme have been designed in collaboration with some to the top names in British design.
Estate agents’ average commission fee rises to 1.5%
Agents in Kensington & Chelsea tend to charge a higher percentage than anywhere else in the country (2.32%) and earn the highest commission amount per sale (£32,430).
Marsh & Parsons’ Kensington sales boss returns to Knight Frank
Matthew Hodder-Williams has been recruited by his former agency to run one of its branches in Kent.
Fine & Country builds prime London presence with nine new licenses since May
The upper-end estate agency brand has added outposts in locations including Belgravia, Islington, St Johns Wood and Holland Park.
Cadogan portfolio value hit by resi and retail falls
Great estate warns that Covid-19 will have a 'pronounced effect' on this year's trading.
There are ‘bargains for buyers in the capital’s coveted postcodes’ – Coutts
"Some parts of central London are now looking extremely cheap compared to their previous price levels," suggests Coutts Bank, going so far as to advise its HNW clients that there are "bargains for buyers…
BoE records four-fold increase in mortgage approvals
...but June's total of 40,000 was still 46% below February’s pre-Covid level of 73,700.