Retailers will have to keep up with Crossrail
Crossrail is forging a path through London’s West End in more ways than one.
Crossrail is forging a path through London’s West End in more ways than one.
‘No ball games’ said the signs on the estates where these Premiership footballers grew up. But with Aviva and Colliers onside, they want to turn that around by putting social housing and sport at the heart of communities. Damian Wild reports. Portrait by Tom Campbell
London’s dominance is coming to an end as overpricing and macroeconomic threats are prompting bearish sentiments. But supply is still tight, and a new host of buyers is waiting. Which way will the market turn? asks Jack Sidders
COMMENT The delusion that the planning system has the strength to force the delivery of homes fit for habitation by locals is exploded – but you can’t blame the developers
LONDON INVESTOR GUIDE EG travels to Deloitte’s Montreal HQ to find out what the UK capital can learn from the Canadian model
Shard developer Irvine Sellar has seen his ambitions for a skyscraper at Paddington encouraged then snubbed by Westminster Council. But with the station in dire need of a new £100m entrance, can a revised shorter scheme save the day?
Government may be putting owner-occupation at the heart of its plans; others see demand and supply moving in a different direction
With two mega-deals, a doubling of the sq ft of lettings in Q4 compared to the previous quarter, and the highest levels of take-up in 12 years, one market outshone all others at the end of last year: the West End.
The massive Battersea Nine Elms regeneration area is rising fast, but how do you turn steel-capped boots into suits?
Not a Ken Livingstone London Plan, or a Boris Johnson London Plan, but a Londoner’s London Plan