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One of the largest - and most controversial - schemes in central London has finally been given the thumbs up by Mayor Boris Johnson.

Unofficial monarchs of the Chipping Norton set Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch probably didn't appreciate all that newspaper coverage over the weekend, but such is life that speculation has already…

OnTheMarket.com, the consumer name for Agents' Mutual, has broken the 4,000 office mark on its dash for 5,000 by the portal's January 2015 launch.

Here's a first peek at how Battersea Power Station's Phase 3 apartments are going to look.

British buyers have accounted for 71% of super-prime £5m+ country house sales so far this year, says Knight Frank. That's a marked increase from 2013's 46%.

Vast swathes of prime real estate could be about to become available in central London, as the Government announces plans to sell off more than 80% of its sites and up sticks to the suburbs.

Prime London asking prices have plummeted by as much as 8% over the last year, according to an index by Home.co.uk, which sagely advises that "boom can quickly turn to bust."

Estate agency Chestertons has made a move into the Cayman Islands, signing up Milestone Properties on Grand Cayman as an associate in the offshore haven.

Hot on the heels of the JLL and W.A.Ellis merger this week, we hear Carter Jonas has also just fortified its resi presence in the capital by acquiring a high-end, two-office independent in SW London.

There's been a slight increase in the number of planning applications and approvals, according to new data released by the UK Statistics Authority, which takes the number of major approvals to a ten year…

Investment firm Topland has followed up last year's £11m acquisition in Putney by bagging an £8m building in Balham.

Three-quarters of Greater London properties worth more than £2m - Labour and the Lib Dem's proposed Mansion Tax threshold for "ultra-high value homes" - are flats or terraced houses, notes Knight Frank.