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Designing for a balanced life: Guy Matheson of SHH on creating London’s ultimate family homes
Guy Matheson, Director of Architecture at London-based design practice SHH, discusses how the firm became a go-to for high-end homeowners in north London, the impact of changing regulations on luxury design, and what clients now want from their private residences…
Notting Hill fever as agency registers 30 ‘big budget’ buyers & sells £21.5m super-home
London House reports super-prime demand spiking in ‘London’s coolest neighbourhood’, and confirms the sale of one of the last big-ticket properties on the open market…
Prime London sales running well above pre-pandemic levels, but ‘realism needed on pricing’ as time to sell slows
The breakneck pace of early 2021 has not been matched, but last month’s deal volumes were still up by nearly a third on February 2019; latest LonRes analysis also reveals how pricing is having a major impact on how long a property takes to sell…
Ultra-wealthy US buyers step up search for UK trophy homes
‘This level of interest is something we haven’t ever seen before’, reports Savills London Private Office
£22m unmod mansion in Primrose Hill ‘could be one of the finest in the area’
Arts and Crafts stunner on Elsworthy Road is available for the first time in over half a century
Belgravia mansion ‘liberated’ by anti-oligarch squatters
“This is only the beginning” warn activists, as they occupy a Belgrave Square townhouse said to be owned by a sanctioned Russian billionaire – and call for others to “squat oligarchs’ properties everywhere”
‘Best ever spring sellers’ market’ as asking prices hit another record high
Rightmove has recorded the biggest March jump in average asking prices since 2004 – but the portal’s top analyst warns “there are headwinds that seem likely to remove the current market froth in the second half of the year.”
All change at King’s Cross as final apartments go on sale
14 years on from the birth of the King’s Cross Central Limited Partnership, the last private resi building in the ambitious £3bn masterplan has been unveiled
New Royal Academy of Dance HQ opens at Avanton’s £260mn scheme in Battersea
HRH The Duchess of Cornwall cuts the ribbon on ‘a new dance destination for London’, delivered as part of the developer’s flagship Coda project
Prime Central London flats offer ‘investment opportunities’ as rental yields jump – LCP
“As the PCL market begins to pick up momentum there is still a degree of discrepancy between the performance of houses and flats,” says LCP boss Andrew Weir – “pointing towards the investment opportunities within the flats sector.”