The Market

5% of UK households (around 1.35m) are planning to buy a property within the next 12 months, says Knight Frank.

'Reciprocal travel club' 3RD HOME, which facilities swapsies between owners of luxury holiday homes, has teamed up with The Ritz-Carlton Destination Club to up the ante on perks for members of both outfits.

Zoopla-users are pretty bullish about what's in store for house prices over the next six months: the portal's latest Market Sentiment Survey indicates that homeowners are expecting an 8.

Can a five minute walk really be worth another 50 per cent?

It's a common brief. Two or three bedrooms, top drawer location, nice reception room overlooking a square, and enough entertaining space for 350 of their closest friends.

The first new-build houses to be built as a group in Marylebone for over thirty years have just been released, with prices starting at over £4m apiece.

The prime central London market is hitting a plateau, says Savills, but that doesn't mean that prime London is over-priced...

After a 15.3% surge in the last year alone, resi prices in London's Square Mile are reaching highs of up to £3,000 per square foot, says Diana Alam, Associate Director of Residential for JLL...

What's the price of luxury? Well it depends where you're buying, says Christie's International Real Estate, which has worked out what the entry prices are in ten prime destinations around the world.

The number of properties per estate agency branch has dropped for the sixth consecutive month to tickle a ten-year low, according to the NAEA.

One of the last vestiges of high Victoriana in Kensington has just hit the market for a cool £10m.

"The differential between prime central London and prime country houses is close to the widest it has ever been", says Knight Frank in its latest market briefing, but there's something of a resurgence…