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The Battersea Power Station Development Company has launched The Placebook: Battersea Power Station as part of the 2014 London Festival of Architecture.

Agents Giving is signing up a batch of Regional Directors across the UK to "encourage more agents to get on board as charity ambassadors and to raise more funds for good causes."

£154bn is needed over the next decade to meet new demand for private housing in London, according to Knight Frank’s Bridging the Gap report.

Colliers International has acquired central London property consultancy H2SO.

Finance and insurance firm Charles Derby has launched a high-end estate agency arm in Notting Hill.

"There is no immediate cause for alarm" about the property market, proclaimed George Osborne in last night's Mansion House speech, but "there are on the horizon things that should give us some causes…

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has launched an infographic-tastic webpage to monitor the world's residential property markets.

St James has broken ground on its Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners and Fosters + Partners-designed Albert Embankment scheme.

JLL has recruited Thomas Stevenson to its Resi Land team as National Director. Thomas Stevenson

Prices are likely to carry on up across the country, although London's growth rate will slow a touch while the rest of the country accelerates until 2015 before hitting a plateau from 2019.

Last year's public consultation into the route and options for Crossrail 2 (CX2) - the Chelsea-to-Hackney line - has thrown up a new option for the location of the Chelsea station.

Bethan Gray, Elle Deco’s Best British Designer of the Year, has teamed up with John Hitchcox and Philippe Starck's YOO brand for its new interiors offering in Harrods.