Location: United Kingdom
Maslow hits £3bn funding milestone
Eleven-year-old lender has now funded over £3 billion of real estate projects delivering 11,744 new homes between them.
Post-lockdown bounce gives LSL cause for optimism
Property services group 'increasingly optimistic about market conditions' after strong trading in June & July; restarts marketing as focus turns to 'investing for future growth'
London leads national drop in rental price inflation
Rental price growth in London has tumbled as Covid-19 drives supply up and demand down, reports Zoopla. The portal expects rental growth outside the capital to halve to +1% by the end of this year.
Why the Government’s planning reforms are not all they seem…
Expectations around the Government’s ‘radical’ new reforms were high, but on closer inspection they remind Adam Hesse of the story of the Emperor’s New Clothes...
Westminster submits plans for 758 new homes in Pimlico
Major-scale project is transforming the 1930s housing estate opposite Chelsea Barracks into a ‘mixed-tenure community’ with 758 new homes.
Well-preserved Arts & Crafts townhouse next to St James’s Park offered for £9.25m
20 Old Queen Street was once home to paper tycoon Henry G. Spicer.
Chestertons buys up Morgan Randall’s lettings business
31-branch Chestertons takes on well-known East London agency's staff and 'substantial' lettings book, but not its branches.
Super-prime Chelsea chapel conversion seeks £15m
Five-bed super-home is one of two created from an 1841 chapel on Fulham Road, originally designed by the great Victorian architect Edward Blore.
Strutt & Parker stands by 2020 property price forecasts, despite plunging transaction numbers
Average UK house prices are likely to drop by anything from 1% to 7% this year, predicts Strutt & Parker - although the short-term impact "could be much gloomier" in some parts of Prime Central London.
Interior designer in £1m spat over super-prime Notting Hill townhouse revamp
High society design & build firm Lucinda Sanford Ltd is embroiled in a high-stakes High Court legal dispute with aristocratic property owner Lord Russell over the £4m refurbishment of a super-prime home…
Winkworth reports busiest July in five years
100-office network notes a ‘significant recovery in sales interest’ as Chancellor’s stamp duty holiday ‘turbo-charges’ the market
Purplebricks‘ UK revenue tumbles 11%; instructions down by nearly a quarter
Hybrid agency says it is ‘emerging through the Covid-19 pandemic in a very strong position’, with a healthy cash balance of £66m and a focus ‘fully on the UK’