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Secret Agents: Quiet listings & off-market property deals have soared in the last year
More than 135,000 homes were sold without ever appearing on a property portal or being publicly advertised in 2021, according to new data, while a quarter of £1m+ sales in London were off-market deals.
New apartments unveiled at Battersea Power Station as £9bn scheme gears up for ‘momentous year’
IN PICTURES: Michaelis Boyd designs 119 new units in the Grade II* listed landmark, the centrepiece of London’s biggest regen scheme
Buying Agent Survey: Competition hots up as the sector evolves
Demand for acquisition services is rising, reports LonRes - and so is the competition between firms…
Buyers circle super-prime receivership sale in Surrey
Trio of mansions near Guildford are being sold on the instructions of receivers for a combined £23.5m
Real estate in the metaverse is booming; is it really such a crazy idea?
Gaming is starting to overlap with real life, explains Theo Tzanidis - but is the virtual real estate boom the next great thing or the next big bubble?
Super-prime property sales hit record highs in London
“London’s super-prime markets stellar end to the year is evidence of the influence that the pandemic-fuelled desire for more space has on residential markets," says Savills.
Foxtons offloads D&G sales business and branches after less than a year
Douglas & Gordon's CEO, James Evans, will now run D&G as an independent brand.
Buyers spent a record-breaking £11.6bn on prime London property last year
Buyers ‘bought bigger and spent more’ in 2021, reports LonRes - and sales volumes are set to surge again over the coming weeks…
Charlie Willis on the rise of the prime property broker
American-style property brokers "are lapping up the choice it gives them" on this side of the pond in today's prime resi market, writes Charlie Willis of The London Broker (formerly head of Strutt & Parker's…
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.
In Pictures: Laura Hammett completes new penthouse project at Christian Candy’s 80 Holland Park
London-based studio delivers a modern spin on British design at CPC Group’s super-prime development in W11
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.