Focus On Kensal Rise: This north west London town ticks all the boxes for a place that’s due a price rise March 10, 2017 How can you tell if a place is about to get seriously popular? Well, there are a few signs that you can look out for; plenty of Victorian architecture; well-to-do neighbours; improving schools; green space; and a sudden proliferation of independent shops and restaurants. Kensal Rise in north west London ticks all of these boxes [...]
Watch: Base jumper leaps from skyscrapers around Canary Wharf in heart-stopping video January 6, 2016 If your stomach turns at the mere thought of any height taller than the top of the Tube escalator, look away now – a new video reveals a never-seen-before view of the capital from one of the City's iconic skylines . One man's brave but terrifying leap from a building next to Canary Wharf (with a parachute) reveals what it's [...]
Four facts about Fintech Connect 2016 you need to know December 2, 2016 Are you a fintech pro? Then you'll know 2016 has been a year that keeps on giving where events are concerned. If you’re going to Fintech Connect Live this week, you’re sure of a big surprise: it promises to be bigger than ever. Why? Because every second you’re there, £634 will be made in fintech in the [...]
Focus On Lewisham: Historically undervalued, Lewisham is undergoing a major upgrade November 17, 2016 It may surprise you to learn that Lewisham, that underloved pocket of South East London, is one of the fastest growing boroughs in the capital. Since the arrival of its DLR station and the rise of Canary Wharf – a wealthy neighbour where employment has quadrupled in the last 10 years – it’s become an increasingly [...]
Focus On Queen’s Park: Good schools, shops and value lure families to north west London March 3, 2017 Garden towns and villages have made a surprising comeback of late, largely as a by-product of our desperate search for a solution to the housing crisis. The government announced at the start of the year that it intended to build three new towns of 10,000 houses each, in a bid to reach a target of [...]
Two dead, third person airlifted to London hospital after car overturns on Isle of Dogs, near Canary Wharf January 22, 2016 Two people have died after a car overturned near to financial district Canary Wharf this morning. Emergency services including the police, London Ambulance Service and London Fire Brigade were called to Marsh Wall, near Manchester Road on the Isle of Dogs just after 5am this morning. A spokeswoman for the Metropolitan Police told City A.M. that [...]
Wahaca has now reopened all nine restaurants – including six in London – it shut after a suspected norovirus outbreak November 8, 2016 Wahaca has confirmed all the restaurants it been closed after a suspected norovirus outbreak have now been reopened. The restaurant said in a statement: "We are pleased to confirm that the final of our previously affected London restaurants is open and trading from lunchtime today, Tuesday 8 November. We continue to monitor the situation carefully and, as ever, [...]
People are going crazy over this suggestive skyscraper called the Spire November 2, 2016 The £800m skyscraper set to be Europe's tallest live-in tower has become London's newest phallic symbol. The plans for the skyscraper – also known as the Spire – were initially revealed in September, but now it has attracted attention for how it will look from above. Read more: This City skyscraper has just confirmed its first commercial tenant [...]
London house prices: Galliard launches third phase of Canary Wharf development and there’s just six apartments up for grabs January 27, 2016 Prepare for another burst of apartment hysteria. Galliard Homes has just released a new tranche of bedrooms at its Canary Wharf scheme, and they're expected to sell like hot cakes (again). Just six properties are going up for grabs – new one, two and three bedroom apartments – at its Baltimore Tower scheme in Canary Wharf, the first [...]
Focus On Victoria: A £4bn investment in housing, retail and infrastructure is making it a destination in its own right February 10, 2017 If the Queen’s getting a £369m refurbishment of Buckingham Palace, it seems only fair that the neighbourhood surrounding it should get a polish, too. £4bn should just about cover it, and that’s how much has been invested in the area by developer Land Securities over the last five years. Around £700bn of that has gone [...]