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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.

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.

Londoners bought 63,000 homes outside the capital last year, a chunky increase on 2014's figure of 38,000.

A recovery is on the cards for London's rental market, according to estate agency Marsh & Parsons.

The owners of England's 5,000 biggest country estates should be giving up some of their land to make way for more affordable housing, the RICS has suggested.

The government cheekily chose a Bank Holiday Monday in the middle of the holiday season to launch a consultation into its scheme to charge an extra 3% stamp duty levy on second homes and buy-to-let properties.

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.

October and November saw another couple of mega-deals added to 2015's official ledger of transactions, although as we all know, most of the really big sales go on behind closed doors...

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As another new year looms large, the residential industry’s leading pundits and analysts are unanimous about one thing: the property market is fragmenting, with micro-markets emerging in various locations…