Property Developer News
Contracts exchanged on ‘ground-breaking’ £90m Wirral Waters resi development
Developer Peel L&P heralds "a significant step forward and another hurdle overcome for this ground-breaking residential scheme" in the North West
PCL start-up agency Clifton appointed to Northacre’s No.1 Palace Street
Super-prime developer Northacre has brought in new agency Clifton Property Partners to market luxury apartments at No.1 Palace Street, alongside international heavyweights JLL
Rising costs hit housebuilder’s margins
Taylor Wimpey expects build costs to escalate by 5% this year
Ocubis floats resi-to-hotel switch for unsold Albert Embankment towers
Central London riverside development site has planning consent for two residential towers, but has failed to attract a buyer after two years
New Bishopsgate Goodsyard plan ups affordable elements & features a ‘High Line-style’ public park
In Pictures: Ballymore and Hammerson have submitted revised plans for the controversial ten-acre Bishopgate Goodsyard site in Shoreditch
Capco outlines Earls Court & Covent Garden demerger plan
Capital & Counties wants to create two independent business, both listed on the Stock Exchange: Covent Garden London and EC Properties
Hong Kong sells Kai Tak’s biggest residential plot at discount as city’s unrest drives investors to sidelines
The South China Morning Post reports that a consortium has acquired the biggest resi development site on the former Kai Tak Airport - paying less than the low-end market valuation
Major new prime resi development investment fund debuts with 22-storey King’s Cross tower
A Hong Kong investment firm has teamed up with Gordon Crawford's ED Group to create a nine-figure fund to back residential development projects in central London;
Government ‘opens formal negotiations’ with the property industry for a ‘built environment sector deal’
The Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government and the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy have penned a letter "confirming the government will open formal negotiations on a…
Government to end ‘poor doors’ & playground segregation with ‘toughened up’ planning rules
James Brokenshire announces a package of measures designed to 'tackle stigma and help end the segregation of social housing residents in mixed-tenure developments'
Hedgehog Highways & Bird Bricks: Government orders housebuilders to protect more wildlife
MHCLG publishes new guidance for property developers, with instructions on how 'to do more to protect Britain’s cherished wildlife'
Somerset barn conversion pushes agricultural-to-resi Permitted Development Right
Class Q prior approval has been given to allow a modern barn to be turned into a five-bed home