The Market

Here's a nice little animation from the ONS to show just that. There were only a very few south eastern pockets with a median house price of over £300,000 20 years ago;

The former home of shipping heiress Christina Onassis has just hit the market in Mayfair Village with a price tag just shy of £6m.

Some more details have been emerging about Residential Land's recent offloading of Elliott House in Marylebone.

Will the current raft of multimillion pound rail improvement projects result in a cultural shift towards buyers looking further afield?

Developer Landmark Estates has bagged a 20-acre site in Wiltshire with designs on a £7m resi scheme.

Mossop Street-based Wilben Developments has just smashed the price record on Eagle Place (you know, behind the Ferrari showroom on the Old Brompton Road) with the sale of this little beauty for £3.9m.

Estate agency Jackson-Stops & Staff has been reporting a surge in demand - specifically from buyers in the new-build and off-plan arena - over the last six weeks.

The government's plans to extend Right to Buy could create a £1.

The Government's latest stats have put last month's UK resi transaction tally at 98,540.

Expectations for future house price rises are at the highest level they've been all year, according to Knight Frank and Markit's latest sentiment survey. 23.

Berkeley Group's bosses quietly cashed in £25m-worth of shares just before the election, with Tony Pidgley taking home £18.75m. Shares were sold by the two Berkley bosses for £25 a-pop on 28th April;

The Palace Wharf scheme has planning for 22 apartments and five townhouses