Developers

Read our look at Strawberry Star and its founder Santhosh Gowda to see if its claim to build 4,000 units in and around London is sustainable.
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It is easy to forget how useful the Help to Buy scheme has been for property developers in the UK as the flak from critics has rolled in. The remaining scheme, Help to Buy: Equity Loan alone has driven 211,000 sales worth £11.71 billion…
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Billionaire property tycoon Christian Candy has bought up large parts of the neighbourhood around his Surrey home to create one huge estate, a report in the Daily Mail says. Candy has not only spent £30m buying the mansion where he and…
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A derelict mansion on north London’s The Bishop’s Avenue – a prime property district which is infamous for its empty houses – has been bought by a developer for around £20m. The Evening Standard says that Kenmore House, 58 The Bishops…
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Read how one couple's attempts to get on the property ladder led to the birth of a fast-growing property development and investment business.
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What is essentially a complete new city of 40 developments and 8,000 homes with a total value around £10.7bn is being built along Old Kent Road, a report suggests. The report entitled The Transformation of Old Kent Road – by south and…
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The Radisson Hotel Group has announced that it is to open a 430 room Radisson Blu Hotel at the planned The London Resort theme park. The London Resort project comprises a new 535 acre theme park to be built on the Swanscombe peninsula…
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Housebuilder Persimmon Plc has commissioned a review designed to find out what stakeholders including customers, suppliers, employees, trade bodies, local authorities, civil servants and experts across the wider industry think of them. …
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The nation’s volume house builders are often criticised for being short-term, profit driven construction machines largely uninterested in the wider problems of the housing market. One exception to this rule is Legal & General, which…
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A process to create a masterplan for the redevelopment of the area around London’s Victoria station has begun. The Victoria Business Improvement District (BID), a consortium of local businesses, is inviting consultants to develop a…
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Property mogul Christian Candy and his wife Emily have bought their four children a £1.2m house to help them gain an understanding of the property development business. The Daily Mail says that the couple have bought the three bedroom…
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The link between developers and the social housing sector has become stronger and stronger in recent decades as builders have sought to help local authorities provide more units as successive governments have prevented councils from…
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Dealmakerz has interviewed many of the UK’s property titans including some of the country’s leading agents, developers, tech entrepreneurs, lawyers, financiers and campaigners. But what about the young entrepreneurs who have yet to gain…
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Theatre producer Sir Cameron Mackintosh is applying for consent to build a five bedroomed penthouse flat at the top of London’s Novello Theatre, it is reported. The penthouse flat will occupy the top two floors of the theatre with one…
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OakNorth Bank has provided £11.4m financing to Ocea Group,a property developer which specialises in commercial to residential property conversions – primarily office buildings into apartments – under permitted development rules. The…
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