Miscellanea
Ranked: The happiest places to live in Britain
Hexham, Harrogate and Richmond-upon-Thames are the happiest locations in the UK, according to a poll by Rightmove
Savills expands on the South Coast with new Brighton office
International property advisor "kick starts" new South Coast operation with flexible desk space
RBKC looks to extend board ban
Council keen to keep streets free from 'advertisement clutter'
Westminster Council defends ‘gifting’ policy
Council fends off new questions over conflicts of interest after staff receive 240 individual gifts in a two-year period
How England’s broken planning system has created (not reduced) the risk of floods
"Urban areas have been creating flood risk," writes Lee Bosher. "And this is largely due to the government’s focus on making land – low cost, flood prone land – available for development."
Ranked: 2019’s most popular property search terms
Zoopla reveals househunters' most-used search keywords from the last 12 months
Insider: Inside London’s derelict ‘Billionaires Row’ — a mile-long street of mystery, murder, and tax avoidance
American news website Insider has profiled 19 mansions on The Bishops Avenue, in a series of salacious articles on North London's “Billionaires’ Row”.
Positive reaction for Chelsea apartment with air quality ‘similar to the open countryside’
RBKC architect Philip Challinor reports successful result after coating a mansion flat on Park Walk with a colourless and odourless solution of titanium dioxide
London named the world’s most ‘comprehensively attractive’ city for the eighth year
London, New York, Tokyo and Paris are the most “comprehensively attractive” and "magnetic" cities in the world, according to 2019's Global Power City Index
Luxury lifestyle prices are rising twice as fast as mainstream consumer inflation
Coutts bank's measure of luxury price inflation has risen by 4.7% a year since 2016; twice the rate of the mainstream Consumer Prices Index
In Pictures: Five interior design options for the new-look Buckingham Palace
As the Queen's official residence undergoes a £369m refurbishment, a firm has imagined how the iconic White Drawing Room could respond to five different interior styles, ranging from Memphis Revival to …
How long does it actually take to complete a sale?
New research breaks down the average time it takes for a residential property deal to reach key financial and legal milestones