Real estate
From the archive: Super-prime mover: Britain’s most successful estate agent – podcast
May 21, 2025We are raiding the Guardian long read archives to bring you some classic pieces from years past, with new introductions from the authors. This week, from 2022: Gary Hersham has been selling houses to the very rich for decades. At first, £1m was a big deal. Now he sells for £50m, £100m, even £200m. What […]
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UK’s oldest Indian restaurant faces closure in dispute with crown estate
April 14, 2025It has been a fixture of British-Indian dining since it first opened its doors in April 1926 on the day of Elizabeth II’s birth, serving guests over the decades ranging from Marlon Brando to the late Queen herself. Yet despite surviving the Blitz and London’s relentlessly competitive restaurant sector, a dispute with the current monarch’s […]
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‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
April 11, 2025Arriving at the Kidbrooke Village housing development in Greenwich on a morning in early spring, the first thing you notice is the sound of birdsong and the scent of blossom. Geese are gently honking in the distance. This was once the Ferrier estate, a postwar housing estate that was demolished in 2009 to regenerate the […]
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Back to the office, say bosses. Thank goodness for that, say property firms
September 29, 2024Carl Pei, co-founder and chief executive of smartphone firm Nothing, recently told staff that from October they would be expected to be back at their desks in its London HQ five days a week. “I know this is a controversial decision that may not be a fit for everyone,” he said in a LinkedIn post […]
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Canary Wharf Group to carve chunks out of HSBC tower after bank leaves
July 18, 2024Canary Wharf Group has unveiled plans to remove large chunks from the HSBC tower as part of a revamp of the 42-storey office block when the bank moves out in 2027. The property company said it would carve out sections of the tower’s facade to create terraces as part of plans to transform the office […]
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£161,000 for 20 days? Nick Candy bemoans One Hyde Park service charge
May 25, 2024The billionaire British property developer Nick Candy has said he only spends about 20 days a year in his £175m penthouse flat at One Hyde Park in London. Candy, 51, who developed the “superluxe” Knightsbridge apartment building overlooking the royal park and acquired one of the flats for himself, said it irritated him that he […]
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Private rents in Great Britain hit record high, data shows
January 26, 2024Average private rents in Great Britain have climbed to new record highs, though in some regions there has been a small fall in the amount new tenants are being asked to pay, data shows. The typical advertised private rent outside London for new properties coming on to the market rose to a record £1,280 a […]
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Luxury London tower near remains of Shakespearean theatre opens
November 6, 2023When excavating the foundations for London’s latest luxury residential tower, archaeologists made an unexpected discovery behind a Shoreditch pub: the remains of a 16th-century Shakespearean theatre. The remains of the Curtain theatre, which opened in 1577 but was lost from historical records in 1622, was found during the building of a £750m complex of 412 […]
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HSBC to move out of Canary Wharf headquarters due to hybrid working
June 26, 2023HSBC is to move out of its global headquarters in Canary Wharf after more than two decades to considerably smaller offices in the City of London, in response to post-pandemic hybrid working arrangements and a cost-cutting drive. The financial services giant, which had up to 8,000 staff at the 45-floor tower at Canada Square during […]
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‘It will kill the community’: residents fight to save London warehouse district
May 24, 2023Since Ata moved to the UK five years ago he has found his home in London’s warehouses. The aspiring actor was drawn to the community of musicians and artists who live and work in them. But after moving to a warehouse in Harringay, north London, Ata heard about plans to demolish and redevelop the area. […]
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