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Stamp duty shake‑up forces a market re‑rating as March completions spike and activity cools

The UK’s 2025 stamp duty reforms have precipitated a rapid and dislocating adjustment across the hou...

Property category • 2025-08-18 19:36

Rents outpacing pay as England renters face accelerating affordability crisis

Renters in England are facing a fast‑worsening affordability squeeze, official figures published thi...

Property category • 2025-08-18 19:35

Brentford GSK campus set for reuse‑led overhaul with 2,300 homes and retrofit tower

Hadley Property Group has submitted a hybrid planning application to transform the former GlaxoSmith...

Property category • 2025-08-18 19:32

Central London retail investment rebounds sharply as institutions pile into West End and Oxford Street

Savills’ latest data shows a sharp revival in Central London retail investment, with transactions to...

Property category • 2025-08-18 19:31

Landsec sells Queen Anne’s Mansions to Arora as central London appetite returns

Land Securities has agreed to sell Queen Anne’s Mansions, the Westminster office currently occupied ...

Property category • 2025-08-18 09:19

Landlords turning living rooms into bedrooms is shrinking shared life for renters

It is easy to underestimate what a living room does until it is gone. Once a repository for half-fin...

Property category • 2025-08-18 09:12

Americans surge into prime London homes, driving demand for air conditioning and softer prices

American buyers are increasingly visible in London’s high-end neighbourhoods, reshaping demand at th...

Property category • 2025-08-17 16:11

Thamesmead family says £1,400 monthly rent forced move to Rent to Buy in Kent

With three young children and a three‑bed home that the family describes as “packed to the rafters”,...

Property category • 2025-08-17 07:59

Tiny Pimlico room fetches £52,000 at auction despite lacking residential planning

A diminutive studio in Pimlico, marketed as a one‑bed raised ground‑floor room, sold at auction for ...

Property category • 2025-08-16 09:33

Tuition cap rises to £9,535 as record living costs push students to work or tighten budgets

Tuition fees in England have risen to £9,535 for the 2025–26 academic year, the first increase since...

Property category • 2025-08-16 09:32

Havering warns it may need an £18m contingency after early £1m shortfall

Cash‑strapped Havering Council is already forecasting a budget overspend for the current financial y...

Property category • 2025-08-15 13:27

Spiral stair “unlocks” cramped Georgian home for chef Andrew Wong

A sweeping spiral staircase now threads through a reconfigured Georgian townhouse in west London, fo...

Property category • 2025-08-15 13:23

KPF and Berkeley propose retrofit of Oxford Circus tower with new seven‑storey Oxford Street podium

Berkeley Estate Asset Management has lodged proposals, designed by Kohn Pedersen Fox (KPF), to compr...

Property category • 2025-08-15 13:22

Coalition U‑turn over tuition fees left a generational scar and rising debts

For a generation of students and their parents the coalition years left a political scar that has no...

Property category • 2025-08-15 13:22

Savills warns Budget uncertainty and Q2 sales slump have dented UK transaction activity

Savills has told investors that a slump in secondary residential sales and nervousness ahead of the ...

Property category • 2025-08-14 13:18

RICS survey shows UK housing market tilting back towards price falls with sharp regional splits

The latest survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors suggests the UK housing market is ...

Property category • 2025-08-14 13:08

Approved student flats could offset more than 10,500 homes as PBSA approvals surge in London

London’s pipeline of purpose‑built student accommodation (PBSA) has received a timely boost, with a ...

Property category • 2025-08-14 13:08

UAL leans on international fees and start‑ups as it expands online and pre‑degree offer

The University of the Arts London presents itself as a distinctive creative cluster: six specialist ...

Property category • 2025-08-14 13:04

Hackney uses HMRC data to recover seven council homes in wider tenancy fraud push

According to the original report, Hackney Council has seized seven council homes after an investigat...

Property category • 2025-08-14 13:03

Lifestyle writer swaps Shepherd’s Bush chaos for Surbiton calm — and refuses the 'boring' verdict

When Alice Giddings, a 25‑year‑old lifestyle writer, left a tiny flat in Shepherd’s Bush for a spaci...

Property category • 2025-08-14 05:03

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