The Market
Flight Moves: A buyer’s natural progression from London to the country
            Sam McArdle & Claire Owen of The Buying Solution narrate a well-worn path followed by generations of Londoners; from a Royal Borough party pad to a Home Counties idyll...
        
    Day Of The Deals: Tory triumph triggers £200m sales surge in London
            Friday 8th May 2015 has gone down alongside the Stamp Duty Stampede of 2014 as one of the most extraordinary days in prime resi history.
 Friday's deals included the £2.        
    West African buyers hone in on Mayfair
            Harrods Estates has reported a surge in West African buyers looking to snap up prime pied-à-terres in London's Mayfair.
        
    Government should charge for an enhanced planning services – BPF
            The British Property Federation thinks that planners should follow the lead of Historic England, and introduce a charging system for enhanced planning services.
        
    The Paris Market: Conditions improve for overseas buyers
            The weakened Euro, abolition of some punitive taxes on non-resident owners and the continued fall in property prices have improved conditions for overseas buyers in the Paris property market, reports Laurent…        
    In Pictures: The £15m St John’s Wood gut job
            Right in the mixer between chichi Primrose Hill and swanky St John's Wood, Avenue Road is lined with some of the capital's most exclusive detached residences;        
    Prime Property of the Week: Decimus Maximus
            York Terrace East, Regent's Park, London 
£8.75m
Available for the first time in 32 whole years, this Grade II listed Crown Estate corker is ripe for a super-prime transformation.
        
    PCL stalwarts show some stamina as Outer Prime runs out of puff
            Prime Central London has started to outperform Outer Prime parts of the capital for the first time since June 2013, according to some new stats from the Marsh & Parsons camp.
        
    Blue Skies: London property surges as Cameron locks out the Mansion Tax
            We now have a dominant Conservative Party for the next five years, which should put Mansion Tax fears on ice for now at least, and drive a surge of activity at the top of the market, where many vendors…        
    ‘The property market in London will now go crazy’ – and other prime resi reactions to a Conservative triumph
            The Conservatives will be the power party for the next five years, and they've even got a fully-fledged majority government.        
    Global luxury property prices now 46% up on 2009’s low-point
            Global prime residential property prices increased by 3.9% in the year to March 2015, according to Knight Frank's index, with North America and Australia pulling up the rest of the world.
        
    Manhattan mansion listed for record $80m
            One of the last remaining private mansions on Fifth Avenue is up for grabs for an eye-watering $80m. If it goes for anything over $53m, it'll become the priciest townhouse ever sold in NYC.