The latest Hamptons index tells us that the national rate of rental price inflation ticked up sharply towards the end of 2020. The annual rate jumped from 1.4% in October to 4.1% in December. This is the fastest pace of rental growth recorded in more than four and a half years, since July 2016.
Wetherby Real Estate has been launched by Barbara Chanakira, founder and CEO of the Mayfair-based buying agency Eaton Property Consultants.
Last week, the government proposed a major reform of leasehold laws, with new rules possibly arriving within two years. Knight Frank’s team has analysed whether the prospect of the new rules will have an impact on the property market from today…
Angus Michie has joined investment/development firm SevenCapital as Managing Director.
The Government has announced some major reforms to the English leasehold system, in a bid to “fundamentally make home ownership fairer and more secure.”
Investor appetite for luxury property plays “increased significantly” last year, reports CapitalRise.
Countrywide Plc’s major shareholders are supporting an improved £134.4m offer by Connells Group to acquire a majority stake in the estate agency behemoth.
European property giant CPI has teamed up again with Rhodium founder Dean Main to expand its resi portfolio in prime London.
CapitalRise and Axian have stepped in to bankroll a grand refurbishment on Ladbroke Gardens.
Landlords accounted for one in every six agreed sales last month, as investors rush to take advantage of the Stamp Duty holiday in a small-scale re-run of 2016.
A London property developer is claiming “the biggest discount of a London penthouse flat in history”, after picking up a four-bedroom apartment in Chelsea Harbour for half the amount paid by the vendor 18 months ago, and nearly two-thirds less than its one-time £10 million asking price…
Euromoney, which owns Wealth-X, has bought rival firm WealthEngine.