The Market

RBKC planners have stepped in to stop an unauthorised basement excavation on Stanhope Mews.

"London now has three very different finance-driven residential markets," says Beauchamp Estates: The City of London - with its recent glut of new residential towers - is catching up with the West End…

Marsh & Parsons is cracking on with its promise to open four branches in 2014. The firm has just launched two new offerings in South West London, and is planning to unveil another next month.

Surrey, Hampshire and Berkshire estate agency Waterfords has recruited a new Head of Lettings.

Strutt & Parker has hoisted its colours in the Scottish independence debate: they're red, white and blue.

House prices have risen by 1.7% since June, taking the annual rate of growth in July to +7.2%, according to the latest batch of stats from the Land Registry.

As we enter the next stage of the housing cycle, market wealth is beginning to flow out of London, says Savills' Sophie Chick.

A mega-instruction of four interlinked Victorian houses spanning Barkston Gardens and Courtfield Gardens has just become available at a smidgen over £800 per square foot.

How good are you at reading buying signals? Are you coming across as 'a bit needy' on viewings?

Mayfair-based buying outfit Black Brick isn't having much trouble bagging new business by the sounds of it.

Residential developer City & Country has just bought one of the country's most important period mansions - the Grade I-listed Police College at Bramshill in Hampshire - for an undisclosed sum.

We don’t know whether Labour Councillor Claire Reynolds is an aficionado of Goya’s etchings, but her latest proposals could have been inspired by one of his most famous epitaphs, says Anthony Hennessy...