Location: United Kingdom
FT: Architectural salvage – antidote to the age of bling
Helen Barrett meets the husband and wife team behind behind cult salvage and interiors company Retrouvius in this piece for the Financial Times
Knight Frank loses star broker Daggers
High-profile super-prime team head Daniel Daggers is leaving the agency after 12 years of prolific dealmaking
Proportion of cash buyers sinks to a record low
Investors were responsible for just under a quarter of mortgage-free transactions in the first half of this year, down from nearly a third in 2009.
Mayfair’s newest street is London’s top super-prime hotspot
Created as part of British Land's record-breaking Clarges Mayfair scheme in 2017, Ashburton Place has seen more sales above £10m than any other address in London over the last 12 months
Savills acquires another Channel Islands firm
Guernsey-based property management specialist Parkes & Associates joins the fold
£10m Kensington penthouse project finds a taker
Originally offered at £13.5m, a rare development opp on Hyde Park Gate has the potential to become one of the area's best top-floor apartments
Friday Showcase: Ten featured prime resi listings
A weekly stock check, powered by LonRes
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."