Location: United Kingdom
Lockdown pushes average time to let to a record high
It took an average of five days longer to let a home in April 2020 compared to April 2019, but rental demand "has now almost recovered to pre-lockdown levels," says Hamptons International.
Back to School: Nine key themes to watch in the weeks ahead
There is a palpable frisson in the newly re-opened London market, write Richard & Sophie Rogerson, but significant challenges lie await as we enter uncharted territory...
Georgian Group names new chairman
Europa Partners co-founder to succeed Christopher Boyle QC as chair of the conservation body in September
Green light for Finchatton’s Arts & Crafts-inspired super-scheme on Billionaires’ Row
EXCLUSIVE: Audentia Global, Finchatton and Pilbrow & Partners collaborate on new 30-unit project on The Bishops Avenue
Super-prime deals unlocked as London agents report ‘crazy busy’ first day back
Beauchamp Estates, Dexters & Winkworth describe 'manic' scenes as the housing market restarts, but Chestertons warns 'this is not a return to normality'
Surveyors reiterate call for Stamp Duty holiday following lockdown market ‘collapse’
RICS' measure of new residential property instructions fell to its lowest level on record in April (since at least April 1999).
Grosvenor calls on Kew Gardens experts for Grosvenor Square redesign
GBI is working with the team at Wakehurst, Kew’s wild botanic garden in Sussex, on proposals to create a 'biodiverse, natural haven' in the middle of Mayfair
We are finally getting some much-needed CIL & planning reform
Hidden away beneath the government's latest advice for estate agents and construction firms were two short paragraphs which will be music to the ears of any planning lawyer, says Nicola Gooch...
70-branch Dexters swings back into action
London's biggest independent agency wastes no time in getting back to work after the government's eleventh-hour green light, but it's not quite business as usual...
Lockdown deal sees Old Queen Street penthouse set a price record
A unique eighth-floor apartment in a boutique development next to St James's Park has sold during the Coronavirus lockdown, becoming the area's most expensive one-bedroom apartment.
Beauchamp MD joins BoE’s advisory panel
Mayfair-based boutique agency to provide regular updates on the UK resi market as part of the bank's Decision Maker Panel, set up in 2016 to help shape post-Brexit economic policy
Westminster brings in Bouygues to transform Ebury Bridge Estate
Giant regen project opposite Chelsea Barracks to deliver 758 new homes in 'the biggest development of new council and affordable homes in the south of Westminster in a generation'