Location: United Kingdom
Countrywide fined over £10m client fund transfer
Agency summoned to disciplinary hearing at the RICS in Birmingham over alleged failure to safeguard client funds
Magnificent Beast: Heseltine’s Belgravia lair hits the market at £28m
Georgian mansion on Chapel Street, which once belonged to the king of the political jungle, emerges from an ultra-prime transformation as one of PCL's finest specimens...
Brexit ‘barely relevant’ for most international buyers, says acquisition firm
'For all the political and economic uncertainty we face because of Brexit, the further you get away from the UK, the less significant it becomes', says Black Brick's Caspar Harvard-Walls, as the PCL agency…
Grand Registry: Surveying last month’s biggest registered deals
A best-in-class family home in Chelsea and a stately new-build mansion in Surrey topped the rundown of high-end sales recorded by the Land Registry in September...
UK International Property Awards 2019/20: The Winners
All the winning firms and projects from Friday's gong-fest at the Royal Lancaster Hotel...
Westminster’s new City Plan goes to the vote on 13th November
Westminster's "ambitious" set of new planning policies are to go before the City Council’s Full Council for consideration next month.
New-build home registrations slow in Q3
39,364 new homes were registered with the NHBC over the last three months, compared to 43,403 a year ago
PCL price rally ‘peters out’
Prices slipped by 0.6% in September to leave the annual fall at 1.8%, reports LCP, with transaction volumes now running at their lowest ever level...
104 property sales worth £2.06bn: London’s super-prime market in five charts
Some fascinating insights into this year's £10m+ sales market from Knight Frank, including a flurry of £30m+ deals, building demand for super-prime, currency plays, and how UHNW buyers are getting younger…
Who will watch the watchmen: On dirty money & estate agency
The government is finally stepping up the fight against the tide of 'dirty money' flowing through the UK property market, but estate agents shouldn't be the first line of defence, argues Saul Empson...
Market Snapshot: Prime rents in London & the commuter belt
Prime London rents have risen for the first time since 2016, reports Savills, while rents in the commuter belt continue to fall
Planners back Westbourne’s St John’s Wood care home scheme
Robin Partington-designed project to deliver 89 resi units with extra care facilities on St John’s Wood Road, and a 121-bed care home on Lodge Road