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Galliard has released a fresh batch of units at its major new Canary Wharf scheme, including the pair of "opulent" duplex penthouses.

With the luxury housing market continuing to cool, some property firms in Singapore are coming up with new ways to help developers boost sales, writes PropertyGuru's Romesh Navaratnarajah.

Multinational agency Engel & Völkers has reported a chunky rise in revenues. 2015's group commission revenues were up 36.4% on 2014's totals and hit 409.8 million euros, a new record for the firm.

Last week's Council of Mortgage Lenders numbers (reported here) show that gross mortgage lending for the UK is, overall, on the rise.

CBRE has brought all of its central London and South East land development operations under one banner to create "the largest and only mixed use development team covering all 33 London Boroughs".

Transaction volumes and average values took another tumble in London last quarter, particularly - and predictably - in the upper echelons.

"The entire developed property universe" is worth roughly US$217tr, with residential real estate accounting for the lion's share, according to some sums by Savills; that's around 2.

The final phase of Berkeley Homes' Westminster scheme, Abell & Cleland, is due to launch this weekend, with a two-bed show apartment opening to the public for the first time.

Top 20 housebuilder Hill is looking to significantly expand its land bank across London and the South East after securing a major financing deal. Hill's 'Woodstock House' project in Esher

23,153 square foot building sits on a 0.195 acre plot at the southern end of Lucan Place

The UK's biggest estate agency group Countrywide is "in retailing, the same as Tesco”, said Chief Executive (and Tesco Non Exec) Alison Platt at the weekend.

Three weeks in to 2016 and it feels a bit like we've just unstrapped ourselves from a bizarre property-themed rollercoaster.