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Despite the Chancellor’s best attempts to slow the market, demand for privately rented accommodation in the capital is holding, says Black Brick's Camilla Dell.

Foxtons boosted its turnover by 4% last year, despite a reported 11% drop-off in transaction levels across London.

Combining house prices and the tube is a surefire way to get capital-dwellers engaged, so canny old eMoov is onto a winner with its London Underground Property Map.

Sager Group and Cain Hoy have kicked off the sales push at their £400m Islington Square scheme by pulling back the curtains on the all-important show apartment.

Strutt & Parker has come out swinging against Scotland's Land & Building Transaction Tax, after the controversial new levy raised £34m less than predicted in the nine months to December.

The Crown Estate's new development on the corner of Sherwood Street and Brewer Street has just hit the market, with prices starting at £1.425m.

All this recent innovation in mortgage lending looks to be 'too little, too late', says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) receipts were up £16m (16%) last year, with properties in Westminster generating over half the entire haul.

Academics from Goldsmiths, Sheffield and York universities have floated the idea of slapping a "premium property tax" on London's prime property market to pay for social and affordable housing.

Holland Park's double-fronted villas regularly command some of London's loftiest prices, but not many come with scope to more than triple the space on offer.

The market moved away from typecasting the buyer as being a particular nationality some time ago and we can now add age into the mix, says Joe Burns.

Chestertons has opened the doors to its 34th London office. The all-new Richmond Hill base will cover the wider Richmond area and link up with existing branches in Kew, East Sheen, Barnes and Chiswick.