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Countrywide plc, owner of estate agency brands including Hamptons International, Faron Sutaria and John D Wood & Co, has consolidated its head office personnel into one swanky Oxford Street HQ, as Sky…

Venerable champagne house Taittinger made a move into the Garden of England last month, buying up a former apple farm in Kent with a view to creating its first British vineyard.

There was an unexpected spike in pre-Christmas activity in Mayfair, says local estate agent Wetherell, as the firm bagged just shy of £50m in sales in the traditional holiday wind-down.

Mortgage broker SPF Private Clients is launching a new division to specialise in mortgages for high-value new-build homes.

Council taking a long hard look at its stance on amalgamations

South west London could be in line for a major HNW selling point if the rumours are true about a top US school going on the hunt for a site in the capital.

Sydney will see the biggest rises in residential property prices of any prime global city this year, says Knight Frank, while Hong Kong, Singapore and Paris are all likely to see price drops.

While prime central London flatlines, the prime country market has been posting some meaningful growth in average values and transaction numbers.

The Surrey town of Dorking has been ranked as the #1 commuter hotspot to watch in 2016, after a survey of house prices and travel across the south east of England.

Proving that 2015 definitely wasn't all doom and gloom, Thomas van Straubenzee and Rory Penn's top-end agency VanHan tucked away a raft of major resi deals over the last 12 months, averaging £16m apiece.

The big purple property portal has pulled together some stats from the last 12 months to compile this rather neat visual overview of the mainstream market... Click the image for the full version zoopla.co.

It sounds like vendors are starting to get the message that the market in prime central London has undergone something of a sea change.