Mayfair’s most expensive new-build: Two-for-one glass mansion pitched at £50m
A pair of hidden glass houses in Mayfair are being offered for sale at £25m a-piece, with the option of combining them to create a palatial £50m mansion.
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Lowndes Square fixer-upper could be ‘one of the premier new-build houses in central London’
UHNW buyers offered ‘totally unique opportunity’ to create a 15,000 square foot trophy mansion on the prestigious Knightsbridge garden square.
In Pictures: Richard James’s tailor-made Mayfair penthouse offered for sale
The Pollen Street home of Savile Row tailor Richard James is being pitched as “one of the most stylish contemporary apartments in Mayfair”, with a £2.5m asking price.
Sigma creates £1bn London build-to-rent venture
Sigma Capital has partnered with Swedish investment firm EQT to create a £1bn housing joint venture, with plans to deliver c.3,000 new rental homes in London over the next five years.
In Pictures: ‘Transformative’ designs for Grosvenor Square create ‘a global blueprint for shared urban spaces’
Designs by Tonkin Liu promise a comprehensive revamp of London’s second-largest garden square, enlarging the Mayfair garden by some 3,000 square metres and creating a template for urban landscaping projects around the world.
New instructions surge in Prime London amid ‘surprisingly busy’ summer sales market
More properties are also going under offer, but it’ll take another month or two before we start to see any annual growth in deal volumes, reports LonRes…
Londoners on the move: How ‘rebalancing priorities’ are influencing the decisions of four key London buyer types
Savills’ research team has profiled four key London buyer types and how their changing wants and needs are impacting the prime residential markets. Here’s what’s making Upsizers, Extended Commuters, House Swappers, and Super-prime Buyers tick in today’s market.
Running out of the gates: On the rush to the country & the hollowing out of a great city
“One would have thought the very city itself was running out of the gates”, wrote Daniel Defoe of London in 1665. The Treasure Island author’s vivid descriptions of a plague nearly half a millennium ago could well be applied to the property market in 2020, say Charlie Ellingworth and the Property Vision team…
The Missing Market: Why London property developers are missing out on over 23,000 new-build buyers
Savills has identified a significant “missing market” for new-build homes in the capital that property developers “cannot afford to miss out on.”
Westminster brings in Publica to oversee £235m Oxford Street revamp
Leading urban design consultancy Publica has been tasked with providing “strategic oversight to shape the holistic design and delivery” of the Council’s £235m plan to revamp the Oxford Street District
Capco takes a 26% stake in Shaftesbury
Covent Garden owner Capco has agreed to buy a 26.3% stake in West End landowner Shaftesbury Plc, for £435.9m.
Green light for Keystone’s 5,000-home Royal Docks development
Foster + Partners’ masterplan for Thameside West in East London has been given the go-ahead by Deputy Mayor Jules Pipe.