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Lucian Cook on house price forecasts: Deciphering the messages in 2022
Savills' head of residential research reflects on how forecasters translate actions and events into numbers and trends to come up with property market predictions for the year ahead.
Property developers told to foot £4bn cladding bill, or government will ‘impose a solution in law’
Housing Secretary Michael Gove has written an open letter to the property industry, insisting that developers "must pay to fix the cladding crisis that they caused" - and agree a fully-funded action plan …
Savills stalwart Thistlethwayte moves on after 27 years
Hugo Thistlethwayte ran Savills' global residential operations for the last six years, having previously set up and managed the buying agency division, Prime Purchase.
Eddell leaves Savills to launch independent property consultancy
It's "the right time to shake things up," says the former Head of Country Houses at Savills and Knight Frank, as he launches an eponymous consultancy, specialising in high-profile new owners of prime …
Country houses out-performed in 2021, but PCL’s property market is primed to ‘bounce rapidly’ this year
Savills expects prime regional price growth to moderate this year, while Prime Central London prices feel ready to surge upwards.
‘Vintage year’ for the prime country house market as top-end prices surge 20%
“I’ve never known a time like it in 30-plus years," says Rupert Sweeting, head of national country sales at Knight Frank.
Coastal communities ‘may need to build back to better places’ away from flood zones, warns Environment Agency
“We’re going to have to keep assessing whether we can, as a whole, as a country, afford to protect different parts of the landscape," says EA chief Emma Howard Boyd - suggesting the some communities will…
‘2022 has to be the year to educate and understand each other and promote diversity and equal opportunity’
Priya Rawal, founder of the Luxury Property Forum, shares her insights on the prime residential industry and predictions for the year ahead.
Super-prime deal digest: 15 of 2021’s top luxury property sales
PrimeResi picks the standout sales from another rollercoaster year in Prime Central London
Selling Super Prime: Reality TV show signs PCL & LA property stars to create ‘the ultimate London agency’
Celebrity real estate magnate Paul "PK" Kemsley is returning to London with ambitions to "turn the super prime property market on its head.
In Pictures: Plans submitted to transform Grosvenor Square into an ‘extraordinary urban garden’
Architecture practice Tonkin Liu and horticulturalists Nigel Dunnett and Gary Grant have designed an "extraordinary urban garden" in the heart of Mayfair, at the behest of landowner Grosvenor Britain &…
Covid-19: Government updates property industry & home-mover guidance
"It is necessary to re-introduce some measures to manage the virus," says the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities.