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Six Senses to launch 79 branded residences in Umbria
Luxury hospitality giant teams up with London-based investor VIY Management to deliver its second Italian outpost.
Amberfield land & more MMC: RICS pitches policies to drive ‘long-term improvements to the housing market’
Surveyors call for a new "Amberfield" land classification, more modular housing, and further interventions into planning and development, home ownership and the private rented sector.
Well-preserved Arts & Crafts townhouse next to St James’s Park offered for £9.25m
20 Old Queen Street was once home to paper tycoon Henry G. Spicer.
Chestertons buys up Morgan Randall’s lettings business
31-branch Chestertons takes on well-known East London agency's staff and 'substantial' lettings book, but not its branches.
Ten ways to tackle corruption in the planning system
Transparency International has identified five key corruption risks in the English planning system, and has suggested ten practical steps that could keep local authority decisions more legitimate.
RIBA calls for an ‘urgent reconsideration’ of ‘damaging’ planning reforms
"The government has missed a huge opportunity to make changes to the planning system for the better, and we call for urgent reconsideration," says RIBA's President Alan Jones.
Rightmove names new finance chief
Alison Dolan starts as CFO in September, on a base salary of nearly £400k.
Lifestyle buyers plough into UK farmland market
Savills' rural team reports a surge in demand for lifestyle/amenity farms amid a continuing shortage of supply...
Exclusivity in residential property transactions: Is there another way?
Farrer & Co's legal team outlines four potential solutions to a persistent problem in the conveyancing system...
Super-prime Chelsea chapel conversion seeks £15m
Five-bed super-home is one of two created from an 1841 chapel on Fulham Road, originally designed by the great Victorian architect Edward Blore.
‘Idyllic’ Mediterranean island fetches €10m
Ukrainian HNW named as the buyer of Gallinara, near Monte Carlo, which was used as as a hideout by Pope Alexander III in the 12th century, and as a base for the German army during WWII...
Strutt & Parker stands by 2020 property price forecasts, despite plunging transaction numbers
Average UK house prices are likely to drop by anything from 1% to 7% this year, predicts Strutt & Parker - although the short-term impact "could be much gloomier" in some parts of Prime Central London.