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Property portal Rightmove has partnered up with Time Out to target London home-hunters.

The number of cash sales across England and Wales hit 420,000 in the year to March, accounting for two-fifths of recorded transactions and adding up to a whopping total of £110bn.

One of the trickiest of districts to get one's head around, the 200 or so acres of streets, squares and high streets that form Marylebone are actually five distinct micro-markets, each with their own…

Knight Frank City and East has bolstered its resi development department with the addition of Peter Robinson as Associate.

New stats have revealed some pretty chunky - and widespread - price cuts going on at the top of the market.

"30% of all tenants seeking a London flat to let are dog owners," claims lettings specialist EJ Harris, and there aren't enough pet-friendly residences to go around.

"Councils must produce local plans for new homes in their area by 2017 – or the government will ensure those plans are produced for them."

2013's temporary measure allowing unused office space to be converted to residential use has been made a permanent fixture.

Carter Jonas has recruited a new Head of Research from Knight Frank. Darren Yates was formerly a partner at Knight Frank, where he worked as head of global capital markets research.

One of the biggest names in super-prime development has taken the covers off its latest project, a boutique new-build in the middle of Knightsbridge Village.

Investor and developer Merchant Land has started on site at OneTwentyFour, a new boutique resi scheme on Seymour Place in Marylebone.

"The financial strain of buying can be overstated," says Zoopla (if you ignore deposits and purchase fees etc, and bank on interest rates staying low), as the portal informs us that it's cheaper to buy…