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Luxury real estate brokerage John Taylor has boosted its tally of global offices to 21 after opening up a Berlin operation.

The market may still be in choppy waters, but it doesn't sound like property firms are battening down the hatches just yet - far from it in fact.

High value property transactions have slumped in the last year, as a major reform of the stamp duty system significantly upped the cost of moving at the £1m+ level.

Strutt & Parker has bought AKA Planning, an independent planning consultancy based in Leatherhead. AKA's team of six planners will join Strutt & Parker’s existing development team in Guildford;

Annual price growth in prime central London fell to 0.9% in November, Knight Frank has reported. A monthly decline of 0.3% took the yearly rate down to the lowest it's been since October 2009.

St. Modwen, the property developer and regeneration specialist behind New Covent Garden and Wembley Central, has made a couple of changes to its senior residential team.

"The fragmented nature of the regional market became very apparent" this year, says Carter Jonas, as house prices soared past their pre-crash high-points in the South and East, but continued to languish…

Buying agency Stacks has been brainstorming the features it expects buyers to be putting at the top of their search briefs next year. A 'proper' pantry

One of SW7's loveliest communal gardens is due to go under the hammer later this month.

The UK arm of Sotheby's International Realty has been upping its Resi Development & Investment game lately, bagging instructions across three new high-end schemes in London.

Balfour Beatty has won a key contract at Northacre's highly-anticipated new scheme in St James’s Park.

Luxury travel brand Abercrombie & Kent's property arm - Abercrombie & Kent International Estates - is morphing into a new operation - Sphere Estates - following a management buyout by the company's General…