New homes on sale in London this weekend: from an old police station in Maida Vale to the old Pathe Building in Soho June 10, 2016 Westbourne place, Maida Vale From £550,000 A former local police station in Maida Vale, built in 1911 and designed by John Dixon Butler, is currently being converted into 25 apartments. Developer Redrow is retaining authentic architectural features, notably two original staircases, the Victorian brick facade, and the original “Police” sign at the entrance. The apartments, ranging [...]
New homes on sale this weekend, including the former BBC Television Centre in White City April 22, 2016 Television Centre, White City From £700,000 The former home of the BBC forms the centrepiece of the regeneration of White City, which will see 5,000 new homes built in total. The first batch of homes will go on sale from 23 April at 11am in the Television Centre Pavilion. The first phase will consist of [...]
New homes on sale this week in Leyton, Clapham, Bromley, Harrow and Marylebone April 14, 2016 Lyon Square, Harrow One to three bedroom apartments are on sale from 16 April in central Harrow from developer Redrow London from £365,000. There will be 310 homes in total, measuring between 538sqft to 1,265sqft situated two minutes away from Harrow-on-the-Hill tube station, which reaches the City in 35 minutes. Call Redrow London on 0203 [...]
City Moves for 15 March 2016 | Who’s switching jobs March 15, 2016 JHC Systems JHC Systems, a provider of wealth management solutions, has announced the appointment of John Boggis as its new head of sales. John brings almost 20 years of financial industry experience to the role, having most recently held the position of head of sales for EMEA & APAC at Eagle Investment Systems, which is part [...]
Housebuilder Redrow’s share price stutters despite record first-half results February 9, 2016 Redrow's first-half results bulldozed through a number of records as the housebuilder's revenue, profit and order book all reached new highs. The FTSE 250 firm's share price spiked 3.3 per cent higher in early trading before slumping 1.8 per cent lower to 414.60p. However, despite some share price volatility (unsurprising bearing in mind the wider [...]
These 13 property developers will help TfL build its property empire – including British Land, Balfour Beatty, Land Securites, Berkeley, Redrow and Canary Wharf Group February 3, 2016 Transport for London has chosen 13 companies to help it build thousands of new homes on its unused land and generate billions of pounds of new revenue. Canary Wharf Group, Land Securities, Balfour Beatty, Barrat Homes and Berkeley Group are among those chosen to develop 50 sites in to homes, offices and retail outlets across London. [...]
Focus On Croydon: The affordable South London hotspot that’s getting a £1bn facelift January 8, 2016 If there’s one thing we learnt from the London property market in 2015, it was not to underestimate the outer boroughs. Some of the largest house price growth increases were to be found in these supposed backwaters. Growth in places like Haringey and Hillingdon far outstripped traditionally prime areas like Kensington & Chelsea and Camden, [...]
UK unemployment figures set to be in the spotlight – London Report November 8, 2015 Following the US jobs report on Friday, UK investors will focus on Wednesday’s release of the September employment report and October’s tally for the claimant count. They will be published alongside a raft of secondtier indicators on retail sales and house prices. Today, funeral operator Dignity is expected to reveal a jump in revenues when [...]
UK house prices: Combined wealth of UK property investors rises 40 per cent in a year, hitting a record £306bn October 30, 2015 The UK's real estate investors are richer than ever before, with £306bn of wealth – a new record. That's according to the Estates Gazette Rich List, which said this was the first year the figure had risen above £300bn. It's a 40 per cent jump since 2014, when the total figure was £218.3bn. What's surprising is [...]
Best of the Brokers for 2 October 2015 October 2, 2015 To appear in Best of the Brokers, email your research to notes@cityam.com REDROW Housebuilder Redrow “is the most growth-focused UK housebuilder,” Jefferies follows, with “virtually all the available cash is being used to buy land”. So the broker is not at all alarmed by the low dividend (lowest in the sector) announced with the company’s full-year [...]