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Major players back call for Unique Property Reference Numbers
Over 50 influential property industry organisations - including Savills, Knight Frank, Countrywide and Foxtons - are calling for the introduction of Unique Property Reference Numbers.
Leasehold law changes: How will the property market react?
Last week, the government proposed a major reform of leasehold laws, with new rules possibly arriving within two years.
Anti-viral Marketing: How property agents are keeping the market moving safely in lockdown
"This is a golden opportunity for our industry to gain the trust of the public,” says one top industry pundit, as estate agents and buying agents share how they have adapted to doing business by the…
Leasehold shake-up promises the ‘biggest reforms to English property law for forty years’
The Government has announced some major reforms to the English leasehold system, in a bid to "fundamentally make home ownership fairer and more secure."
Interview: Marcus Bradbury-Ross & Charles Lloyd on launching CBRE’s new Private Office
Last year saw major-league agency CBRE bring together four Savills alumni – including one of PCL’s best-known agents, Charles Lloyd, and acquisition specialist Marcus Bradbury-Ross – to offer ‘bespoke…
Property market to remain open despite national Coronavirus lockdown
"You may leave home to fulfil legal obligations or to carry out activities related to buying, selling, letting or renting a residential property," says official guidance on strict new anti-viral restrictions,…
Oona Collins: Seven new year tips to help you and your business prosper in 2021
The inspirational executive coach behind some of the biggest names in property explains how to deal with constant change by building a resilient mindset...
Connells’ takeover of Countrywide confirmed
Countrywide Plc's major shareholders are supporting an improved £134.4m offer by Connells Group to acquire a majority stake in the estate agency behemoth.
Green light for the West End’s largest development of 2020
Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has secured planning permission for the £500m redevelopment of South Molton Triangle's "forgotten backstreets", linking Mayfair to Oxford Street.
Revisions to the Standard Method: Will new planning reforms deliver?
Nick Ireland & Paul McColgan of planning consultancy Iceni Projects explore what impact a change to the planning formula - designed to promote more housebuilding - could have on our cities...
CPI makes another splash in prime London, picking up blocks in South Kensington & St John’s Wood
European property giant CPI has teamed up again with Rhodium founder Dean Main to expand its resi portfolio in prime London.
Tom Bill on what 2021 could bring for the UK property market
Tax changes and the withdrawal of support measures mean the post-Covid ‘normal’ will only begin to emerge later next year, writes Knight Frank's Head of UK Residential Research.