Super-rich buying up ‘Downton Abbey estates’ to escape pandemic
Sales of £15m-plus English country homes breaking records as wealthy families ‘recalibrate their priorities’
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The most active cities for luxury retailers. Study
London, Paris, Tokyo and Singapore are the global destinations to remain the key focus for luxury brands wanting to expand or improve their physical profile in 2019. With a 38% increase in luxury store openings last year, London became the most active destination globally for high-end brands last year, according to Marie Hickey, retail … Read more
London luxury property prices will stay flat until after Brexit, says Savills
Market sentiment will remain ‘fragile’ amid uncertainty but start to recover towards the end of 2019, forecasts estate agent
London housing: are high prices really the fault of rich foreigners?
Overseas investors appear to have taken far too much blame for the high cost of London housing
En-suite education: the unstoppable rise of luxury student housing
The UK’s student boom has seen a spate of new, expensive, high-spec studio flats for them to live in, even as local residents are desperate for affordable accommodation. From Coventry to Cambridge, are universities starting to resemble property developers – and does this help or hurt our cities?
Surreal estate: inside Margaret Thatcher’s Chester Square retreat
It’s received Ronald Reagan and other heads of state, and given its bombproof door perhaps other less savoury offerings, too