Docklands News

Concern over skyscraper

22nd April 2016

The Evening Standard reports that a 30-storey apartment block in Paddington that campaigners warn will "open the floodgates" to a new wave of skyscraper building in central London has also been given the go ahead.. The tower is part of a £1bn development on a 2.7 acre car park site just north of the Westway Marylebone flyover that has stood vacant since 1989.

Evening Standard (19/04/2016)

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London Shared offers way to cope with housing crisis

22nd April 2016

The Evening Standard profiles Jake Willis and Kim Felettigh, founders of London Shared, a company that leases property from a landlord on a three-to-five-year agreement, does it up and then rents it out room by room to working professionals, earning the difference between what they paid the landlords and what the tenants pay them. They estimate they can save a typical landlord £30,000 in fees over the course of their agreements, and maintain they have always been able to pay the monthly rent.

Evening Standard (19/04/2016)

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EcoWorld Ballymore launches Canary Wharf development

22nd April 2016

EcoWorld Ballymore has launched for sale its West Tower development in Canary Wharf, offering suites, one and two bedroom apartments. It is the second of two high-end residential towers overlooking South Dock with views of Canary Wharf and each apartment offering an extensive private ‘sky garden’, up to 37.2 sq m in size.

CoStar (22/04/2016)

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London’s super-rich increasingly looking to rent

22nd April 2016

After stamp duty increased on expensive homes and prices began falling in London’s wealthiest areas, potential buyers of homes worth more than £10m are increasingly opting to become tenants instead.

Financial Times (18/04/2016)

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Top London homes being sold at a discount

22nd April 2016

Over 50% of homes in London’s prime market were sold at discounts of 10% or more in the first quarter following a downturn in the market, according to LonRes.

Financial Times (22/04/2016)

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Aston Martin hits the heights on the Isle of Dogs

15th April 2016

Developer Mount Anvil and car manufacturer Aston Martin have celebrated a their partnership by displaying a 2016 V8 Vantage GTE Challenger race car on top of the 31-storey Dollar Bay Tower in South Quay on the Isle of Dogs. The event on Wednesday, which marked Mount Anvil’s appointment as Aston Martin’s Central London Luxury Homes Partner, saw guests mingle around the car, which will compete in the 2016 FIA World Endurance Championship, on top of the Ian Simpson-designed tower which, when complete, will offer 113 studio, one, two and three-bedroom apartments.

The Wharf (14/04/2016)

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