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The lettings team at Harrods Estates has landed a peach of an instruction in W1.

Knight Frank's Guildford office has just tucked away a rather nice country house deal.

The resi sales market in the West End has "soared" since the election, reports CBRE, with enquiry levels and average values both up by nearly a third.

Prime London property prices ticked up by 0.8% in Q2 - the first rise since September 2014, and quite the change from Q1's -0.6% - as "investors strengthen their hold" on the PCL market.

39% of all buyers in prime central London during Q2 were originally from overseas, says Strutt & Parker, with a noticeable increase in buyers from Western and Eastern Europe, as well as from North America.

In an unusual move, the landlord of a rental property on Mulberry Walk is tempting prospective tenants with carte blanche to completely redecorate a whole house.

Two former members of Good Relations' specialist property PR division have teamed up to launch a new indie agency in Midtown.

Savills has completed its acquisition of Sydney-based real estate agency Cordeau Marshall.

Britain's 'ability to buy' is better now than it was in 1997, says Hamptons International, as the affordability of housing has improved in recent months.

Foxtons is reporting that a record number - 85% - of all its tenancies are renewing contracts.

"The number of Manhattan apartment sales greatly increased in the four weeks leading up to July 1," says New York real estate website City Realty from across the pond.

How's this for a soft launch... Over 1,000 buyers have already enquired about apartments in the soon-to-be-transformed Shell Centre, less than a week after the registration process began.