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Reactions: On the Tories’ planned Stamp Duty hike for foreign buyers
Rounding up thoughts on the Conservatives' idea to ramp-up Theresa May’s 1% SDLT surcharge for foreign buyers to 3%
Westminster Council defends ‘gifting’ policy
Council fends off new questions over conflicts of interest after staff receive 240 individual gifts in a two-year period
PM offloads Islington townhouse
Scene of key Brexit strategy meetings hit the market in May at £3.75m
Property markets to ‘remain stable’ in 2020, but prime buyers are ‘becoming less compromising’
Estate agency Jackson-Stops shares its predictions for country property markets next year
How England’s broken planning system has created (not reduced) the risk of floods
"Urban areas have been creating flood risk," writes Lee Bosher. "And this is largely due to the government’s focus on making land – low cost, flood prone land – available for development."
Rebuilt Holland Park villa asks £25m
Façade retention project carried out six years ago created a 9,000 square foot mansion with a 40-foot pool, gym and cinema
Knight Dragon ups resi numbers at Greenwich Peninsula
A revised Allies & Morrison masterplan has been submitted to Greenwich Council, featuring 1,800 more new homes
Hong Kong’s wealthy seek safe haven in London’s prime property market
HNW buyers from the troubled region have splashed over £25m with one PCL agency in recent weeks, snapping up apartments in Whitehall, Marylebone and Kings Cross...
Ranked: 2019’s most popular property search terms
Zoopla reveals househunters' most-used search keywords from the last 12 months
Vast Princes Gate block prepped for new ownership
Currently housing a prep school and three apartments, a 21,000 square foot period building overlooking Hyde Park has been put up for sale with access to two and a half acres of private communal gardens…
Caution recedes slightly in London’s development sector, but certainty remains top of the wishlist
Latest poll of senior industry figures suggests cautiousness might be levelling out, although the majority believe that staying in the EU would ultimately be the best outcome for the capital's development…