Press Releases

July 2008

Gareth Clutton appointed as Chief Executive of the Portman Estate

The Portman Estate is delighted to announce that Gareth Clutton has been appointed as Chief Executive of the Portman Estate.

May 2008

Cadogan poaches Portman Estate Chief Executive Seaborn

Hugh Seaborn, Chief Executive of the Portman Estate, is leaving to run Cadogan Estates

.Read more about EGi News Portman Estate to redevelop Garfield House

February 2008

Some of our recent lettings:

10, 11& 12 Manchester Square, 27 Gloucester Place, 71 Gloucester Place, 16 New Quebec Street, 106-108 Wigmore Street, 10 Seymour Place

Read more about EGi News Portman Estate to redevelop Garfield House

December 2007

Estate Gazette Portman Estate squares a revamp

Viscount Portman's property company is the latest London landlord to commission major public realm improvements.

 

April 2007

EGi News Portman Estate to redevelop Garfield House

The Portman Estate has revealed its intention to redevelop Garfield House, W1.

March 2007

Mayfair Life New Old Quebec Street

Westminster Council has just started work on a £500,000 scheme to make Old Quebec Street a new West End 'oasis of calm'.

March 2007

Construction Manager

Harry Neal's £4m refurbishment in central London for The Portman Estate.

January 2007

Estate Gazette New Look for Old Quebec Street

Westminster council has approved plans for a £500,000 revamp of Old Quebec Street W1.

September 2006

Estate Gazette Housing Credit Idea Dropped

Portman Estate has been forced to drop its plans to build up a housing credit that would be used against future commercial schemes on its West End estate.

August 2006

West End Street to get action plan makeover by Stephen Rowe

Westminster council has unveiled plans to regenerate a West End street in partnership with Portman Estate, Great Portland Estates and New West End Co.

Issue 2 2005

The Georgian Magazine A Resilient Estate

The Portman Estate in London has survived for almost half a millennium.
Sebastian Deckker finds its Georgian buildings adapting successfully to the demands of the twenty-first century.

30 September 2005

Daily Mail First Indian Restaurant

In 1810, five years after the Battle of Trafalgar and five years before the Battle of Waterloo, Sake Dean Mahomed opened Britain’s first Indian restaurant.

16 September 2005

Property Week Oliver Fenn-Smith

The Portman Estate has appointed Grosvenor’s former London estate director Oliver Fenn-Smith as property director.

3 September 2005

The Times The Portman Slice of London

The Portman slice of London is being revived under a property professional, says Jenny Davey.

29 April 2005

Marylebone Express Portman Square Garden Articlee

Portman Square Garden is Marylebone’s most prominent private garden square located on the Portman Estate.

23 April 2004

EGi News BPF-Backed Customer Service Club

Property owners including LandSec, Prudential, the Crown Estate, Grosvenor, Portman Estate, Slough Estates and Brixton are forming the Real Estate Customer Service Group, a club to encourage best practice in customer service.

16 February 2004

Evening Standard Homes & Property Gilt-edged and ready to go

Gilt-edged and ready to go - Madonna has given it street cred, now Viscount Portman has ambitious plans to spring clean his elegant West End Estate.

Spring 2004

St Marylebone Society Newsletter The Refurbishment of The Portman Estate

The great London Estates have become more professional, more commercially minded and more intimately involved in the life of the areas they have owned for so many centuries.

21 June 2003

Estate Gazette New Associate Director of Projects and Facilities

The Portman Estate has appointed Simon Loomes as associate director for projects and facilities.

17 April 2003

Property Week DTZ and Vaughan Prize

DTZ and Godfrey Vaughan have won one of the most prestigious instructions in the West End after being appointed on all of the Portman Estate’s office lettings.

06 January 2003

Mayfair Times Village Visionary

With residents like Madonna and Viscount Linley, it is hard to imagine that the Portman Estate, stretching from Marble Arch to Selfridges in the south and to Bryanstan Place and Dorset Street in the north, was once home to nothing but a herd of goats.

02 December 2002

Portman revamp spurs hotel facelift

Work is underway on a £70 million upgrade of one of London’s largest hotels.