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Strutt & Parker acquires Surrey planning consultancy
            Strutt & Parker has bought AKA Planning, an independent planning consultancy based in Leatherhead. 
AKA's team of six planners will join Strutt & Parker’s existing development team in Guildford;        
    PCL price growth sinks to six-year low (but at least viewings are on the up)
            Annual price growth in prime central London fell to 0.9% in November, Knight Frank has reported. A monthly decline of 0.3% took the yearly rate down to the lowest it's been since October 2009.
        
    Change at the top for St Modwen’s resi operations
            St. Modwen, the property developer and regeneration specialist behind New Covent Garden and Wembley Central, has made a couple of changes to its senior residential team.
        
    Relationship with property ‘has permanently changed’ as regional markets fragment
            "The fragmented nature of the regional market became very apparent" this year, says Carter Jonas, as house prices soared past their pre-crash high-points in the South and East, but continued to languish…        
    John Taylor debuts in Germany with new Berlin base
            Luxury real estate brokerage John Taylor has boosted its tally of global offices to 21 after opening up a Berlin operation.
        
    Deverell Smith plans 100% expansion as demand for property recruitment services ‘soars’
            The market may still be in choppy waters, but it doesn't sound like property firms are battening down the hatches just yet - far from it in fact.        
    Knightsbridge tipped as 2016’s ‘place to bag a bargain’
            'Leading the way in terms of price drops compared with the other prime residential boroughs'         
    Mayfair Play: £2 billion Audley Square scheme recommended for approval
            Plans to turn a grotty Mayfair car park into a 296,000 square foot neo-classical scheme worth an estimated £2bn have received the initial thumbs up from Westminster planners.
        
    Zoopla reports record profits and rising membership in ‘transformational year’
            Zoopla has turned in some pretty solid annual results, with chunky increases in both revenues and profits.
Revenue was up 34% to £107.        
    Agency predicts top ten buyer ‘must haves’ for 2016
            Buying agency Stacks has been brainstorming the features it expects buyers to be putting at the top of their search briefs next year.
 A 'proper' pantry
 
        
    South Ken garden up for auction at £175k
            One of SW7's loveliest communal gardens is due to go under the hammer later this month.
        
    Sotheby’s ramps up RDI activity with raft of high-profile launches
            The UK arm of Sotheby's International Realty has been upping its Resi Development & Investment game lately, bagging instructions across three new high-end schemes in London.