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The 1,000th apartment has been delivered at St George's mighty Battersea Reach scheme in south west London. The developer snapped up the 13-acre site - which used to house a gin distillery - in 2002.

LonRes has launched a new quarterly Prime London Sales Index, which you can expect to hear quoted all over the place from now on.

Jamie Lester's Haus Properties has hired one of Foxtons' best sales negotiators to boost its new Fulham operation.

It's "a muted start to the year" says Knight Frank, echoing recent sentiments from LonRes, as property prices in prime central London rose by 0.1% in January, edging annual growth up to 1.2%.

Knight Frank's burgeoning New Homes operation has added another name to the teamsheet in London, with the hire of former Chestertons and Currell man Christopher Jones.

Buyers from the United Arab Emirates and Qatar are "piling in" to the British property market to beat the stamp duty surcharge, according to top-end mortgage broker deVere.

Transport for London (TfL) has named 13 property development companies and consortiums to a development framework which will see resi and commercial re-inventions of some of the capital's most wanted locations.

The latest survey of agents by LonRes has painted a "fairly gloomy" picture of the prime London market.

A boutique apartment scheme in the middle of Val d’Isère has just become the most expensive new-build project in the French Alps.

Marketing megalith Four Communications has boosted its property division with a trio of big hitters from the creative world. Piers Bracher

James Caan-backed "hybrid" estate agency Ivy Gate is continuing its international expansion drive, launching its first Middle Eastern outpost in Dubai.

Foxtons boosted its turnover by 4% last year, despite a reported 11% drop-off in transaction levels across London.