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Weekly Showcase: Ten featured prime resi listings
PrimeResi’s regular stock check, powered by LonRes
Designing for a balanced life: Guy Matheson of SHH on creating London’s ultimate family homes
Guy Matheson, Director of Architecture at London-based design practice SHH, discusses how the firm became a go-to for high-end homeowners in north London, the impact of changing regulations on luxury design,…
Supply improves but agents’ books ‘are still bursting with those who have missed out on previous properties’
"The amount of properties going for over the asking price is still a figure that’s over three times more than what we would see in a pre-pandemic market," says Propertymark's CEO, "but with the cost o…
Prime Central London flats offer ‘investment opportunities’ as rental yields jump – LCP
"As the PCL market begins to pick up momentum there is still a degree of discrepancy between the performance of houses and flats," says LCP boss Andrew Weir - "pointing towards the investment opportunities…
Notting Hill fever as agency registers 30 ‘big budget’ buyers & sells £21.5m super-home
London House reports super-prime demand spiking in ‘London’s coolest neighbourhood’, and confirms the sale of one of the last big-ticket properties on the open market…
Bank of England nudges interest rates up to 0.75%
The BoE's Monetary Policy Committee has raised the base rate of interest by 0.25%, to the highest level since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Battersea Power Station COO moves on
Scott Grant is taking over from Ian Feast as operations chief at the huge central London regeneration project.
Prime London sales running well above pre-pandemic levels, but ‘realism needed on pricing’ as time to sell slows
The breakneck pace of early 2021 has not been matched, but last month's deal volumes were still up by nearly a third on February 2019; latest LonRes analysis also reveals how pricing is having a major…
‘This is the worst planning environment we’ve had to face in a generation’
A "toxic combination of factors" has created the "worst planning environment in a generation", says Aston Mead boss Adam Hesse, as local authority plans are delayed yet again...
All change at King’s Cross as final apartments go on sale
14 years on from the birth of the King's Cross Central Limited Partnership, the last private resi building in the ambitious £3bn masterplan has been unveiled
Activist shareholder tells Foxtons to ‘sell itself’
Stakeholder accuses London estate agency of underperforming, suggesting "the better path for Foxtons is to pursue a formal process to sell itself."
Savills recruits Marsh & Parsons’ Baskerville to head up sales in Maida Vale & Little Venice
George Baskerville led high-profile operations in Holland Park and North Ken for his former agency