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Buying agency Black Brick has hired Edward Minter as Development Consultant in response to a surge in enquiries from clients looking to make investments in the £50m realm.

Prime country house prices nosed up by 0.7% in the third quarter of 2015, taking annual price growth to +2.7%. Annual price growth stands up from +2.

Badger-sympathising rock legend Brian May has reportedly co-founded a campaign to put the kibosh on "destructive" subterranean extensions in central London.

Private equity real estate investor Henley has hired a Managing Director for its newest division, Henley Camland.

Knight Frank's pre-tax profits soared by 19% to £162m in the year to March's end, with the commercial property division doing nearly all of the heavy lifting.

A Surrey estate agency has installed a neat gizmo in its high street branch to harvest applicants 24/7.

Investment firm London & Regional Properties is planning "an iconic new cultural quarter for Elephant & Castle" as part of its development of the Skipton House office block.

Non-bank lender Urban Exposure has financed a luxury resi development in Finchley to the tune of £10m.

Zaha Hadid's first resi effort in New York has just hit the sales market and it looks pretty amazing.

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The prime central London market changed up a gear in September, says Knight Frank, but performance has varied dramatically across town and we're still some way off a full-blown recovery.

Basil Spence's Hyde Park Barracks has not made the grade for listing, despite Historic England recommending a Grade II rank for the 1970s complex, which the MoD is looking to sell.