Properties

Mayor Boris has approved plans for a mega-development on the eastern edge of Canary Wharf, which should create some 3,610 new homes.

The best new residential extensions and improvements are being celebrated by New London Architecture at an exhibition and awards thing at The Building Centre in WC1.

One of the biggest resi deals of 2014 has just gone down in Mayfair. We hear this £45m stonker on the corner of Balfour Place and Mount Street has been snapped up for an undisclosed sum.

The former salon, workshop and home of Royal Milliner Simone Mirman has just come up for sale, sporting a £14.5m price tag. Few addresses in London can claim finer fashion creds.

Abu Dhabi Financial Group has been named as the buyer of the Met Police's HQ, New Scotland Yard in Victoria. The firm nabbed the 1.

Plans have been submitted to Westminster Council for the conversion of three properties on Cornwall Terrace into one 33,000 square foot uber-pile.

Westminster Council has agreed to luxury property developer Dukelease's proposed conversion of Eggington House, 25-28 Buckingham Gate.

One Hyde Park, Knightsbridge £5.6m

It may have come in over budget and behind schedule, but it's "not to shabby, even if I do say so myself," says Alan Page with pride from his doer upper project in Kensington as the sales agents get to work.

Derwent London has been given the green light to turn its own HQ on Savile Row into super-prime apartments. 25 Savile Row (proposed)

Developer Alchemi Group has been given the green light to transform another prominent site in Westminster, just a month after bagging consent for a major scheme on Leinster Square.

An early contender for Bargain of the Year, this 34,250 square foot Grade II-listed mansion in Devon has just been sold for £600k, after being deemed 'simply too big for most people'.