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Winkworth has been reviewing the recent fortunes of the key W8/W14 patch, and boy has it been bustling over the last few months. Have a gander at this...

As reported last week, London's price growth is calming down a bit: PCL prices went up by just 0.2% in November, taking annual growth down to +6.9%.

Per square foot prices in and around Knightsbridge are 8% up this quarter compared to last year's Q3, and stand 50% above 2007's level, says Winkworth in its Knightsbridge, Chelsea and Belgravia Insight…

House prices in real terms - after 14% inflation has been taken into account - are lower than in 2008 in all parts of England outside London, according to some research by Countrywide plc.

Average house prices slipped a smidge last month, dropping 0.2% compared to September according to the latest Land Registry data set. But that still leaves prices up 3.1% on the year.

Winkworth has revealed what it sees in the property market's tea leaves for next year.

Few locations illustrate this (and last) year's buzz-phrase better than Cambridge.

SP Setia is apparently planning to flog the penthouses at Battersea Power Station for up to £30m.

£1.4 billion-worth of residential property has been sold in South Kensington alone this year, according to Winkworth, with international buyers flooding the market "even more so than in previous years".

The prime country house market has "come back to life" in 2013, according to Knight Frank, with a 0.8% uplift in Q3 marking the third consecutive quarter of price growth.

The last three months have been the best yet for Knight Frank's super-prime team, with more new buyers looking for £10m+ homes than ever before, and the average price of the top-end's top end climbing…

Less than a week after releasing its predictions for the next five years (+24% UK-wide if you missed it), Knight Frank has been updating us on last month's activity in the UK, prime and rental markets.