The Market

An enormous 16th century pile on the edge of Dartmoor - considered to be one of the south west's finest specimens - has been sold for a reported £2m.

"The fragmented nature of the regional market became very apparent" this year, says Carter Jonas, as house prices soared past their pre-crash high-points in the South and East, but continued to languish…

Luxury real estate brokerage John Taylor has boosted its tally of global offices to 21 after opening up a Berlin operation.

The combined effects of Stamp Duty reform, Mortgage Reviews and a General Election may have have kept a firm lid on transactions and prices during 2015, but Strutt & Parker has reported "signs of life"…

High value property transactions have slumped in the last year, as a major reform of the stamp duty system significantly upped the cost of moving at the £1m+ level.

Annual price growth in prime central London fell to 0.9% in November, Knight Frank has reported. A monthly decline of 0.3% took the yearly rate down to the lowest it's been since October 2009.

One of SW7's loveliest communal gardens is due to go under the hammer later this month.

The UK arm of Sotheby's International Realty has been upping its Resi Development & Investment game lately, bagging instructions across three new high-end schemes in London.

After George Osborne used his Autumn Statement to drop a surprise bombshell on the property investment sector, tacking an extra 3% SDLT levy on second homes and buy-to-let properties, Savills has produced…

'Leading the way in terms of price drops compared with the other prime residential boroughs'

Her Majesty's Treasury is looking at ways of "injecting innovation into the process of home buying" to cut costs for homeowners, speed up processes and jolly transaction numbers along.

Sager Group and Cain Hoy have lifted the lid on their much-anticipated reimagining of the ginormous former North London Royal Mail Centre.