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Super-prime developer Finchatton has promoted Jiin Kim-Inoue to the role of Design Director, responsible for "leading and implementing the firm's global design strategy". Jiin Kim-Inoue

Adding more fuel to the "lights-out London" debate, the owner of Knightsbridge restaurant Racine, which closed down last week, has laid the blame squarely on "non-doms" after reporting an exodus…

Wriglesworth, one of the capital's top property PR agencies, has been snapped up by global consultancy Instinctif Partners to create a 90-strong UK team. Instinctif Partners & Wriglesworth

Big-spending Malaysian investors have backed Ballymore Group to develop three resi projects in London worth a whopping £2.2bn. The Embassy Gardens lobby

House prices across the UK went by an average of 10% in the year to November 2014, says the ONS, down a touch from October's +10.4% after just a 0.2% increase between October and November.

Capital & Counties has continued its "tactical acquisition strategy" in Covent Garden with the bagging of yet another key site.

Make, the architecture practice behind projects including St James's Market and Rathbone Square, has appointed its first female board member.

Units at Principal Tower, London's first resi tower to be designed inside and out by Foster + Partners, have been selling like locally-sourced artisan hotcakes.

City fund managers reckon the value of Royal Mail's portfolio of redundant sorting offices and sites has doubled in under two years. Mount Pleasant sorting office

Council planning teams across the UK are being tooled up with a £1m war chest to stop unruly developers and homeowners in their tracks. Pickles on the job

Chestertons has amped up its Middle Eastern presence with a joint venture with Saudi-based MEDAD Valuation International (part of the Najeeb Abdullatif Alissa Holding Company).

Home Counties estate agent Waterfords has moved into a new "flagship office" in Fleet after out-growing its old space.