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Marsh & Parsons has created (and filled) a new  role - Director of New Homes - in its Residential Development & Investment team.

Looks like Cluttons has had a strong first year in its blue colours: the firm's just announced that its turnover climbed by 11% and its pre-tax profits by 36% in the year ended 31 March 2014.

The number of property transactions recorded by HMRC stuck at around the same level for the end of last year, with December posting roughly the same as in November, and 0.4% fewer deals than in 2014.

Scotland's Finance Secretary John Swinney has set out the new-look detail for the new Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT), which is lined up to replace SDLT in Scotland from April this year.

After analysing every single station along the route, JLL has worked out that Whitechapel in East London will reap the most significant resi rewards from the arrival of Crossrail.

An 11,000 square foot apartment on the 89th and 90th floors of the One57 development on 57th Street has been crowned "Manhattan's Most Expensive Condo" after officially closing for $100.5m.

The owner of a £4m house in Hampstead Garden Suburb has been hit with one of the biggest fines ever handed out for unlawful renovations to a listed building.

Who'd pay Knightsbridge prices for Elephant & Castle living? That's exactly what buyers in Hong Kong are doing, says an incredulous Alan Page from over yonder.

Ivor Dickinson joins Northern property investment firm with Southern ambitions

88% of development finance brokers are reporting that developers have approached them in the last 12 months because they had been refused funding from the lender with which they would usually work, says…

Land referencing firm TerraQuest has been appointed as the preferred bidder to take over the running of the Planning Portal, with plans to "take the Portal to the next level".

Hong Kong is the world's least affordable place to buy a home - with median house prices coming in at 17 times the median income - while the UK's overall multiple is a - relatively - benign 4.7.