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Promises made to homeowners in the £2m-£3m bracket mean that people owning properties worth more than £3m would pay an average of £23,775 in Mansion Tax per annum, according to new research by CBRE.

The Chairman of 44-office estate agency Jackson-Stops & Staff has come out swinging against politicians debating the merits of a mansion tax;

The total number of conveyancing firms active in the UK market last year (5,871) was down 24% on the 7,733 seen in 2007, which means that a whopping 1,862 firms have either exited the market or merged…

The 2015 Forbes Billionaires List, which ranks those around the world earning more than $US 1 billion by their net worth, included a total of 157 real estate tycoons, 96 of whom were based in the Asia-Pacific…

An apartment at 7 Palace Gate, the former home of painter and illustrator Sir John Everett Millais, has just come up for sale for a shade under £5m.

"Borrowers can now snap up some of the lowest mortgage rates on record," says Hamptons, and it's the top-end of the market that's seeing the benefit.

Kirsty Bertarelli - Britain's richest woman, a songwriter and a former Miss UK - has won planning permission to dig out a two-storey basement underneath her Belgravia mews house "to make it more conducive…

Graham Farrant has been chosen as the new Chief Executive of the Land Registry.

Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has appointed Simon Harding-Roots as Executive Director, Major Projects, London estate.

The Homes & Communities Agency's free development appraisal tool - a site specific cashflow spreadsheet that assesses the viability of a scheme - has been updated to a newer, shinier version.

London's biggest estate agency, Winkworth, has launched a new centralised service for relocation agents and corporate clients searching across its 90-office UK and international network.

Buying agents by day and rugby fanatics by the weekend, the team at Middleton Advisors have decided to combine their two favourite things by sponsoring youth squads across the search firm's Surrey,…