Location: United Kingdom
Watch: Embassy Gardens’ ambitious ‘sky pool’ takes shape
Property developer EcoWorld Ballymore is going to great lengths to create a "world first" 25-metre suspended swimming pool in Nine Elms.
Is this the sign that the London market is bottoming out?
LCP has just recorded the smallest annual decline in transaction levels across Prime Central London since 2014;
Former Iraqi government building in Earls Court to be auctioned off
Guided at £4.5m, the 8,000 square foot office building on Childs Place was previously used as a base for Iraq's Cultural Attaché, but could have a future as a new apartment scheme...
KPMG warns of no-deal Brexit house price plunge
Property prices could crash by as much as a fifth if Boris Johnson pursues a no-deal Brexit, says accountancy giant;
Developers contribute £6bn a year to community infrastructure projects
New CIL reforms mean local councils now have to declare developers' contributions and how levies are spent
‘We need to clamp down on buy-to-leave by charging a levy on second homes’ – Corbyn
Labour leader calls for crackdown on an empty homes loophole
Friday Showcase: Ten featured prime resi listings
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Grand Registry: Surveying last month’s biggest registered deals
Notable sales lodged with the Land Registry in July included an 'enchanting' Grade II listed house on one of Notting Hill's top turnings, along with other prime specimens in Chelsea, Kensington and Bayswater;
£10m price chop for Park Lane mega-duplex
A 6,877 square foot amalgamation in Fountain House has been relaunched at £20m, 33% below the price being asked in 2017...
Leave-voting areas are outperforming in the house price stakes
Eight out of the top ten council districts posting the highest rate of house price growth since the EU Referendum voted Leave, according to new research
London estate agency taps international investor ‘feeding frenzy’, launching bulk-buy division
Developer discounts and currency plays are attracting international investors to London in a big way, says James Pendleton
On the demise of the leasehold portfolio
Recent consultations and proposed reforms are likely to have a significant impact on investment decisions around what used to be an attractive asset class for institutional investors and pension funds,…