The Market

London's rental prices are likely to rise by 10% next year, thinks Marsh & Parsons, driven by strong tenant demand and a flourishing corporate sector.

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.

Sales of £1m+ homes in Scotland have rocketed by 20% since the independence referendum, says Savills, as "strong evidence of a steady recovery" permeates the market north of the Wall.

The world's luxury residential markets "face a diverse range of challenges and opportunities in 2015" says Knight Frank in it's Prime Global Cities Forecast, with New York likely to have the best of the…

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.

Knight Frank's latest analysis of house price growth around the world has recorded Dubai's first quarterly decline in four years, together with a slowdown across much of Asia.

Chelsea-based independent Russell Simpson has been looking up a few stats on the capital's penthouses.

It looks like London's super-rich are opting for to wait and see for the next 12 months, as the very top-end of the rentals market - with six and seven figure annual rents - booms.

London-based buying agency Black Brick is tipping Maida Vale as the investment hotspot to watch next year, although Marylebone should remain the go-to option for discerning owner-occupiers...

One Hyde Park, Knightsbridge £5.6m

"Exponential growth" since last year's launch of luxury new-build specialist estate agency Johns & Co has meant the firm has just recruited a batch of new faces, including a key hire from Knight Frank.

You can read LCP's excellent analysis of the new SDLT landscape here, and go deep into all the industry reactions here, but here are a few handy at-a-glance overviews from Keats (third graph) and Chestertons…