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The conveyancing world could be in for a major online shake up when the Law Society's new venture goes live in the Spring.

Super-rich African oligarchs have spent over £600m on luxury homes in London in the last three years, with Nigerian buyers alone accounting for £250m.

Thackeray Estates says its has brought "Belgravia-quality homes to Waterloo" with its Dover House project by pulling out all the stops with suppliers, including calling in luxury resi's international…

The peeps over at Property Division have had a bash at an ambitious Mansion Tax visualisation, showing the extent to which each London borough would be affected by Labour's proposed new levy.

Three new bridges across the Thames "can galvanise their north and south banks" says buying agency Garrington as St James's Riverlight development in Nine Elms welcomes its first residents.

Despite dropping a touch in Q3, rental values in the Home Counties have increased on an annual basis for the first time since June 2012, says Knight Frank. It's not a big increase: 0.

It's the end of the rise for prime central London's property prices, says Marsh & Parsons. Q3 saw prices struggle up by just 0.5% as supply levels jumped by 13%.

The second half of this year "will be significantly below levels during the same period last year" warns Foxtons, as its Q3 turnover drops.

"A sharp rise" in private housing activity has pushed up construction workloads at the fastest rate since 1994, says the RICS.

Top-end acquisition outfit Quintessentially Estates has cut the ribbon on its latest sun-soaked outpost and revealed plans for a significant expansion of the business in 2015.

EC3, WC1 and WC2 are the top three postcodes in the UK for buy-to-let investors, reveals LendInvest in its inaugural Buy-To-Let Index.

ZPG has rolled out a new gizmo that allows agents to easily build own-branded comparables reports for vendors.