Property Developer News
Avanton offloads Battersea Square dance academy site
Ultra-posh prep school Thomas's has apparently agreed terms to buy the historic Royal Academy of Dance site - which has approved plans for a residential scheme - from developer Avanton.
In Pictures: Resi sales launch at NY’s famed Waldorf Astoria Towers
The "unprecedented restoration" of Manhattan's Waldorf Astoria is due to complete in 2022, delivering 375 apartments alongside a 375-key hotel.
Housing Ministry launches ‘homes of the future’ design competition
Government calls on the industry for "ideas for new low carbon, age-friendly homes."
McLaren Group recruits Berkeley veteran for new housebuilding business
Property giant McLaren has launched a new housebuilding arm, recruiting Berkeley First's Matthew Biddle as Managing Director.
CMA finds ‘worrying evidence that people who buy leasehold properties are being misled and taken advantage of’
A new report by the Competition & Markets Authority accuses property developers of mis-selling leasehold homes.
Plans drawn up for a ‘fairytale’ private house in Camden
Cloud House in NW5 "might have been conjured up by Walt Disney".
Investec backs Brill Place tower with £35m loan
Resi-led scheme in King's Cross will deliver 54 luxury apartments in a new 22 storey tower.
TWCL launches second phase at Farringdon’s Postmark
In Pictures: The Feilden Clegg Bradley-designed Signature Place will deliver 109 apartments and a new wellness centre.
Native Land wins approval for more homes at Bankside Yards
Phase Two of the £1bn Bankside Yards riverside tall tower cluster will now deliver 341 homes, up from 232.
Mandatory New Homes Ombudsman to police ‘rogue’ developers
All housebuilders will need to sign-up to Robert Jenrick's New Homes Ombudsman scheme.
Green light for Grosvenor’s Bermondsey biscuity factory build-to-rent scheme
City Hall has granted planning permission for one of London's biggest build-to-rent developments; the former Peek Frean biscuit factory site in Bermondsey will deliver over 1,500 new rental homes.
The billion-pound building boom that could transform Oxford Street back into a prime resi address
Nine new residential developments are changing the face of Europe's busiest shopping street;