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The firm behind the £8bn transformation of Battersea Power Station has joined the ranks of businesses and residents kicking up a stink over plans for the new Thames "super-sewer".

Peter Knight is taking over from Bill McClintock as Chairman of the Estate Agency Foundation (EAF), which does good works trying to combat the causes of homelessness. McClintock

Orion Capital has pushed up the next phase release date for its UNStudio-designed Canaletto development next to the City Road Basin, after being happily surprised by early sales numbers.

It sounds like Native Land has decided to up sticks and shift operations from Mayfair to the Southbank. NEO Bankside, Southwark

It's not easy to find out just how much business the UK's top buying agencies are doing these days.

Aston Chase has jumped on the techno-wagon, joining up with property video company VistaBee to produce a film of a £9m St John's Wood penthouse using Google Glass.

House prices across the UK rose by 8.4% last year after a +1.4% December spurt, according to the latest from Knight Frank. London under-performed the wider country, posting a 7.5% price increase (+0.

Average asking prices have shot up by 1% in the "the largest ever January rise in the price of property coming to market," according to Rightmove.

London property "is 8% cheaper than it was six years ago" for Chinese buyers thanks to the strength of the Renminbi, says WA Ellis in a new report on South East Asian buyers in the capital.

Londonewcastle and Royal London Asset Management have moved a step closer to revamping what's being called "one of London's last few remaining large, centrally-located riverside regeneration sites".

Merton council is the latest London borough to make a move on banning mega-basements, with a spike in dig-down applications in Wimbledon Village driving the clamp-down.

Average rents across the country rose by 2% in 2013 in "a year of rebalancing as the economy recovers," according to Countrywide's annual lettings index.