Results tagged “property”

The long-awaited redevelopment of the Greenwich Peninsula is set to start after the Olympic Games after the next phase of building was announced today.

Boris Johnson was on the Peninsula this morning to see plans for 1,300 new homes and 600 student dwellings which could be built later this year.

Having just been through the mill on the purchase of my first home, I enlisted the help of an east London estate agent to help me identify where I went wrong and to give anyone with no experience of the industry a little sage advice. Branch partner at Ashley King Prabhjot Kalra has been in the business for more than seven years and set up his own firm just over a year ago.

Citigroup's Canada Square headquarters is reportedly up for sale for more than £1billion.

The 45-storey building at 25 Canada Square, which has 1.2million sq ft of office space has been put on the market by owners Glenn Maud and Derek Quinlan, according to the Financial Times.

Planning permission has been granted for a four star hotel to be built next to The O2.

Greenwich Council's planning board last night approved plans for the 452-bed hotel, which will also feature a ballroom, restaurant and health spa. It will also have a sky bar and executive lounge overlooking the River Thames.

It may work out cheaper to buy your home than to rent it, according to property website Zoopla.co.uk.

The site has put together an index to discover where it is better to purchase a property in the UK rather than letting one. The index compares current asking prices to average rents for two-bedroom flats in 50 locations across the UK.

Greenwich Creekside is set to become London's new arts and cultural quarter according to developer Telford Homes.

With the Laban Centre - a building that has won awards for its design and is home to a dance school - next door and the promise of an artists' village, theatre space, a jazz centre, cafes, bars and restaurants, this area could well turn into a new hub for creative arts in the town.

An application to build a 305-room boutique hotel in Marsh Wall has been resubmitted just months after it was refused by Tower Hamlets Council.

The application, by Marsh Wall Chelsea LLP, originally went before the council's strategic development committee last year, but was rejected over concerns about its size.

Surfing is one of the things that Cornwall does best.

And a Cornish property developer is encouraging city dwellers to grab a slice of the surfing action, right on their own sea-front doorstep.

Savvy buy-to-let investors should ride the wave of the property downturn and snap up property in Cornwall - a sought-after "failsafe area" with universal appeal, according to developer Acorn Blue.

It's got a bit of history to it this Ideal Home Show business. Unlike many of the massive events gracing London's exhibition centres, this one has a lineage that goes back more than 100 years. It was founded by the Daily Mail in 1908, the same year Suffragettes were chaining themselves to railings in a bid to get the vote, Ford's first Model T rolled off the production line and work on the first tower in the UK to use reinforced concrete - The Royal Liver Building - had just begun.

Bear Sterns proposed new home at 5 Churchill Place has been snapped up by a private investor based in Bermuda.

Canary Wharf Group sold its leasehold interest in the building for £208million this morning. The new owner is a limited partnership called 5 Churchill Place LP.

A primary school teacher and her husband hope to raise around £50,000 for charity by giving away a Canary Wharf flat.

Pat and Vipul Pachchigar, from Manchester Road, are hoping to boost awareness for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust by offering their three UK investment properties in a competition.

Developers have submitted firm plans for a nine-building development in the heart of the Millennium Quarter near South Quay.

Millharbour LLP and Millharbour 2LLP have filed a planning application with Tower Hamlets Council for the Millharbour Quarter project, which will include 1,634 homes, 44,938sqm of office space and 2,859sqm of retail.

By Jim Fitzpatrick

One of the worst things to have to countenance in life is home repossession.

The Wharf's readers might be interested to learn of a new national campaign to help struggling homeowners take control of their finances and make the most of the support available for them to avoid repossessions and stay in their homes.

A former Lehman Brothers trader is helping to set up a networking site for property professionals.

Syria-born Bisher Armanazi hopes that AgentPad will become the go-to site for estate agents and property experts looking to share tips, post articles and boost their online profile to attract customers.

By Steven Davies

Lower interest rates have prompted an industry body to rethink its prediction of the number of homes likely to be repossessed ths year.

Although the housing market remains in a precarious position, the Council of Mortgage Lenders believes the fall in rates combined with increased levels of tolerance from lenders and government intervention schemes has given a spark of hope to those facing reposession.

By Steven Davies

A body that represents letting agents launched a new scheme last week designed to protect tenants from unethical practices in the industry.

Agents who belong to the Association of Residential Letting Agents (Arla) will have to abide by a new code of practice, meaning they will have to secure professional qualifications and set aside time to make sure these are up to date.

By Steven Davies

A housing scheme aimed at encouraging private institutions to pump cash into building new homes was launched by a government body last week.

Stressed workers losing the epic struggle for peace and quiet at home might be about to retreat into futuristic escape pods lurking in the corner.

This Mork and Mindy-style capsule - featuring games systems, surround sound and air conditioning - is on show at Grand Designs Live.

Pan Peninsula buyers admit they "don't know which way to turn" as they strive to pay for their homes.

Ballymore has advised purchasers that speaking about their plight may be "counterproductive" to their bid for finance, creating a "negative hue" around the luxury Millharbour development.

By Victoria Clayton

Homeowners could be earning more than £4,000 a year tax-free through a government backed rent-a-room scheme. A study by Big Yellow Self Storage, which is supporting the initiative, estimates UK residents could generate £38billion in income if they rented out all the spare space in their houses.