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PCL resi will be the best performing major asset type in 2014 – Chesterton Humberts
PCL transaction levels top 2007 as average price breaches £1.5m
There's "no sign of a so-called 'bubble'" in the Land Registry's numbers for this year's Q1, which show a marked increase in both prices and transactions levels in prime central London, notes London Central…
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Country estates outperform PCL as values approach 2008 levels
Here's a turn up for the books; English country estates have outperformed country houses and even prime central London resi in terms of average price growth over the last year.
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Mortgage market ‘knocks it out of the park’ with biggest February since 2008
Gross mortgage lending reached £17.6bn in February, according to the latest from the Council of Mortgage Lenders; that's a 5% drop on January's £18.5bn but a chunky 30% above last February's £13.
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Savills names new Mayfair sales head
Nick Verdi takes the reins of agency’s high-profile operation based on North Audley Street.
OB Private scales up with senior hires & new brokerage arm
Six new recruits arrive - including an established team from Chestertons - as PCL agency rolls out broker platform alongside employed structure.
Ex-Savills director joins Moveli
Upper-market brokerage continues to scale its national agent network.
Savills appoints new lettings heads in Surrey
Agency strengthens Cobham and Guildford teams as regulation reshapes the rental landscape.
House Collective adds Hamptons veteran as London expansion gathers pace
Alister Shaw and Paul Davis bolster boutique firm’s West and North London teams.
Grant J Bates Property installs new lettings boss
Ex-Hamptons associate director to spearhead prime lettings push at fast-growing luxury brokerage.
‘A celebration of craft, materiality & artistic expression’: Inside The Whiteley’s latest design collaboration
With more than three-quarters of apartments now sold, the Bayswater landmark unveils another 'Designer Collection' apartment, created by Irish interiors maven Maoliosa Murray.
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Talking Heads: How a cyber-attack put the PCL property sector in limbo
PrimeResi hears from some of the capital's top property brokers, lawyers & developers, about how November's IT hack exposed a fragile planning system, put transactions on ice, and continues to cause 'havoc'…
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Cohort agrees £20mn loan against £56mn Mayfair home
Big-ticket refinancing was agreed in only three weeks.
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Call for urgent demand-side stimulus as worst-case risks emerge for London’s new-build pipeline
Industry analysis flags risk of sharp slowdown and potential developer exit as existing projects near completion.
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Talking Heads: How a cyber-attack put the PCL property sector in limbo
PrimeResi hears from some of the capital's top property brokers, lawyers & developers, about how November's IT hack exposed a fragile planning system, put transactions on ice, and continues to cause 'havoc'…
By PrimeResi
Heaton returns to LCP Private Office as Executive Chair
PCL big-hitter 'steps aside' from hospitality venture The Other House; takes up exec role at the buying agency she founded in 1990.
Battersea Power Station appoints new architects to ‘evolve’ Viñoly’s masterplan
Studio Egret West is designing the second half of the ambitious London regen project.
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Grant J Bates Property installs new lettings boss
Ex-Hamptons associate director to spearhead prime lettings push at fast-growing luxury brokerage.
Knight Frank France strengthens Paris foothold with in-house resi offering
Former Junot director Alison Ashby has been appointed to lead the agency's new team based in the City of Light.