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Countrywide goes ‘back to basics’ after ‘disappointing’ year
More pain for the UK's biggest agency, as sales and lettings divisions post 45% profit plunge; recovery plan to involve ditching hybrid direction, decentralising decision making and building 'significantly …
Estate agents’ stock levels hit a record low
New buyer enquiries, new instructions and newly-agreed sales all continued to trundle downwards in February, reports the RICS
Bayswater named as one of the top neighbourhoods to watch…in the world
Area north of Hyde Park highlighted along with districts in LA, Sydney and Singapore as having potential to significantly outperform over the next five years...
Improved rail links boost property values by up to 22%
Savills quantifies the effects of infrastructure improvements on local house prices
New York trumps London in city wealth rankings
Big Apple sweeps the board in terms of wealth, investment, lifestyle and future; London still beats all other European cities with Brexit having 'limited impact' so far...
PIRI 100: European cities emerge from decade of weak growth
Annual index tracks performance of world’s leading prime second home and city resi markets
The Wealth Report 2018: Niall Ferguson on Brexit, China and the backlash against the backlash
One of the world’s most influential and controversial historians talks exclusively to The Wealth Report’s editor Andrew Shirley about the big issues facing the world and its wealth creators...
Hybrid agency eyes Prime Central London expansion
Notting Hill-based YOUhome claims to have 'turned the old estate agency model on its head'
More borrowers choose longer-term mortgages than two-year deals for the first time
48% of mortgages written in Q4 2017 were for five years or more; 40% were two-year products. 91% were fixed-rate.
Billionaire pays £1m a year to ‘test-run’ £36m Westminster mansion
11,000 square foot Baroque-style pile was launched onto the sales market last year, following an ultra-prime makeover by Saigol DDC; £19k per week long let described as the capital’s "biggest ever try…
Prime Central London transaction numbers hit a record low, claims new property index
London Central Portfolio launches a new property index; reports that England & Wales has just seen the biggest quarterly fall in property prices since the global financial crisis
Native Land & Rogers Stirk Harbour win South Kensington Tube development gig
Transport for London picks Native Land as its preferred Development Partner