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Prime country house prices increased by 0.9% between January and March, says Knight Frank, taking the rate of annual price growth down from December's +3.4% to a more modest +2.

London Central Portfolio has hired a new property search manager to track down "the best on and off-market properties" in prime central London.

The world’s biggest peer-to-peer mortgage platform, LendInvest, has announced a "strategic alliance" Plentific.com, a property portal aimed at the renovation/investment/development market.

Short term lender West One Loans has reported a pretty big start to the year.

Harrods Estates will be throwing open the doors to its new Kensington base at the end of the month.

New plans have been submitted to turn a grotty Mayfair car park into a 200,000 square foot neo-classical scheme. It's already being tipped to become "London's most exclusive address".

It sounds like pretty much half the conveyancing firms in the country are already sold on the Law Society’s new portal, Veyo.

Regent's Park-based independent Aston Chase has boosted its lettings offering by hiring Marie Beirne from TK International.

The world's property markets have aligned themselves into two fairly distinct groups since the Great Recession, says the latest global housing update from the International Monetary Fund:

Buying agency Middleton Advisors has recruited a new member to its core Hampshire market.

There's been "a notable slowdown" in top-end rents around the world over the last quarter, says Knight Frank, as the agency's Prime Global Rental Index records its weakest annual growth rate since 2009.

Knight Frank has rejigged its Residential Development department, making a bunch of senior new hires and moving some people around internally as part of a recruitment drive "which will see the department…