A mystery Brunei billionaire is investing £500 million into transforming Queensway. The once grand Bayswater throughfare is set to become the Covent Garden of west London, with new apartments, refurbished luxury homes and a retail boulevard. By David Spittles
The collapse of Lehman Brothers, five years ago this weekend, had an immediate impact on a UK property market already reeling from the failure of Northern Rock a year earlier. By Tanya Powley
The location of the penthouse apartment is one of London’s most desirable says Nicola Venning
Wealthy Hongkongers are among those buying to renovate and rent, or sell on to other Asians. by Richard Warren
Secret homes with lush gardens lurk in city centres, says Lauren Thompson.
Demand is growing for high-end homes built or adapted to meet the religious needs of their owners. By Graham Norwood.
London’s historic St James’s quarter is ripe for investment, reports Lucy Warwick-Ching
Off-market property sales are on the rise, but is the chase for privacy, exclusivity and mystique costing buyers thousands of pounds? Graham Norwood reports…
Top-end locations like prime central London there is a phenomenon spoken about in hushed terms and seen rarely in the rest of the country: it is the ‘off-market’ property.
How can we tell that an area is on the cusp of becoming the next fashionable location? Alexander Garrett looks at a few of the telltale signs.
It’s the question every would-be property investor would like answered: how do you know when an area is genuinely on the way up, and not just being talked up by the local estate agents?
Demand for resi new-build is sky high and rising. CBRE revealed earlier today that the volume of such sales above £1,000 per square foot leapt by a whopping 240% over the last year and it’s been well-documented that South East Asian buyers have increasingly become a dominant force behind similarly remarkable figures, even shaping the way in which developers develop their schemes and marketeers market them.
