Focus On Hackney Wick: Lack of homes and riverside cool is driving up prices on the edge of the Olympic Park January 25, 2016 With its disused warehouses and abandoned commercial buildings lining the banks of Regent’s Canal, a visit to Hackney Wick may not overwhelm you with its promise initially. But look a bit deeper into its property market and the potential of this industrial plain is clear to see. “Hackney Wick is one of east London’s most [...]
Bargain property prices and a laid-back lifestyle are luring Brits to St Lucia January 25, 2016 Famous for its lush beauty, St Lucia is luring investors looking for fabulous beaches and a laid-back lifestyle. Property prices here took a tumble after the 2008 crash and, according to the Global Property Guide, are almost unchanged in the past three to five years. It also states that St Lucia property is 40 to [...]
City Moves for 12 February 2016 | Who’s switching jobs February 12, 2016 JOHNS&CO High-end estate agents JOHNS&CO has appointed two new directors. Clynton Nel and Chris Boswell both join from Hamptons International. Clynton, who has joined the team as residential director, will be based in the firm’s new Marsh Wall office in Canary Wharf. He has over 13 years’ experience in the property industry, specialising in renewals [...]
Plans for five-storey office block above Farringdon Crossrail station win approval January 25, 2016 Plans to build a major new office building above Farringdon Crossrail station have been given the go-ahead by City planners today, with construction expected to start next year. Designed by PLP Architecture – the architects behind Lipton Rogers and Axa Real Estate's 22 Bishopsgate skyscraper – the five-storey building will sit above the station's eastern ticket hall on [...]
Property of the Fortnight: Rare Tower Walk townhouse on sale in the middle of St Katharine Docks March 17, 2016 House-hunting usually requires some compromise: a downgrade in location, a flat rather than a house, the sacrificial shedding of car parking space. At first glance, Johan Denekamp a former advertising CEO, seems to have it all – the townhouse, the location, the views – but take hope, because it took him and his wife a [...]
Spanish house prices climb at their fastest pace for six years March 9, 2015 House prices in Spain are rising at their fastest rate since 2008, official statistics showed yesterday. Residential property prices climbed by 1.8 per cent in the final three months of 2014 compared with the same period a year earlier, according to Spain’s national statistical office. For 2014 as a whole, prices were 0.3 [...]
UK property prices: Average cost of house has risen by 300 pc to over £680,000 in two decades – Savills January 15, 2016 The average house price in the UK has risen by 300 per cent and is now almost £200,000 higher than it was 20 years ago, according to upmarket estate agent Savills. The country's most expensive areas have seen an even steeper 538 per cent increase in the average house price from £108,032 to £689,649, found [...]
London house prices: Sub-£1m homes in central London “becoming extinct like the Dodo”, according to Wetherell and Dataloft report February 29, 2016 Remember the Dodo? That's the way affordable homes in central London are heading, a new report has claimed. Within the next 12 to 24 months, apartments costing less than £1m and houses valued at less than £2m "will become extinct across Mayfair and the West End", according to the latest research by Wetherell, with data analysis [...]
We visit one of the last luxury chalets to be built in Courchevel March 3, 2016 Perched high up in the Tarentaise Valley in France’s Rhone-Alpes region, Courchevel 1850 has long reigned as one of Europe’s most expensive and glitziest resorts – ranking top on both Knight Frank and Savills’ prime and ultra prime ski resort indices. Set in the vast Three Valleys area – the largest ski location in the [...]
Property Entrepreneurs: How Pelican Media built an app to sell City apartments off-plan March 30, 2016 When the luxury apartments at Landmark Place in the City of London were launched in February, their details were presented on a series of iPad Pros. The new tablet had been launched just three months previously, but Tony Nicol could see the benefits of using the new hardware – and set his team racing to [...]