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Jeremy McGivern is Managing Director of Mercury Homesearch, London’s premier search agents and sales negotiatiors for luxury properties. This month, we once again invited him to share his insight on London’s high end property market. Fewer vendors are bringing their homes to market, with new instructions down 20% in Q4 2018 compared with the same…

You’d be forgiven for thinking this was California Looking at this picture you would be forgiven for thinking it’s a beach house from a film set in California. But it’s not. This is cold, wet, old Cornwall- and yours for a tad under £1 million. Take a look at these other properties with magnificent sea…

Spanish architecture studio elii has recently completed a wooden house on a sloped site in Pedrezuela, 45km north of Madrid, Spain. This staggering beautiful and simple structure was completed in just two weeks, and gets a big thumbs up from the practice. It’s the work of a Spanish studio and was featured in Domus.

Richard Rogers attacks relaxing of planning restrictions in the green belt Richard Rogers has made his views clear about the impact of relaxing planning restrictions in the green belt. Beneath is an extract from his article in the London’ Evening Standard newspaper. It would destroy London’s vitality “even more surely than it would despoil the countryside,”…

As if building a home extension didn’t cost enough already, there’s a new tax in town. On top of construction costs, VAT and section 106 agreements, homeowners must now also pay the Community Infrastructure Levy on any extension of more than 100 square metres. If that wasn’t bad enough, it’s even worse if you live…

This awesome whale-shaped ice-rink in Liege, Belgium is the work of architects L’Escaut. The stadium, which is covered with 200,000 aluminium scales, can devour 1,200 spectators in one gulp. More on this creation can be found on Deezen.

Amongst widespread resident concern, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea have frozen development on 120 applications for basement extensions while they examine a new policy to be finalised in December. If passed, the proposals will ban basements extending below one storey underground and limit the extent to which they can expand beneath the garden.…

Covid-19: Who Bears the Contractual Risk for Construction Project Delivery? The ultimate trajectory of Covid-19 in the UK remains uncertain, at the time of writing, the government anticipates it will “spread in a significant way” – and supply chain issues look set to extend well beyond panic buying of hand sanitiser and toilet roll. by…