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The DCLG is looking to flog its Planning Portal website.

The line-up for September's RESI 2013 Conference at Celtic Manor has just been announced and there's plenty to get your teeth into if you're planning on going.

Super-prime design firm Casa Forma has launched a property development division, the nattily-named CF London.

Strutt & Parker is reportedly about to embark on a massive media push, following a wholesale review of its creative advertising arrangements.

Savills' latest Residential Property Focus (for Q3 2013) asks whether the mainstream market is in a full-on recovery, or whether its just a temporary reprieve - as happened in 2010.

Soames, the Chelsea-based lettings agency, has been bought by mainstream chain Belvoir as part of a pretty aggressive acquisitions spree that sees the firm make its first foray into the prime London market.

It's been a big week for Northacre's interior design firm, Intarya, winning over £1.5m-worth of work in the shape of two trophy projects in Bayswater and a palace in the Middle East.

If you were developing a building as culturally significant as the former Beatles HQ, you'd be bonkers not to go big on the heritage angle.

Resi land values in prime central London shot up by 4% in Q2, whilst prices across the UK rose by an average of 1.2%, according to Knight Frank today. This means that average UK values have risen by 1.

Knightsbridge and Mayfair are the most expensive parts of London to rent a two-bed flat (avg.

Rightmove is doing pretty well, with big increases showing across the board  in today's Half Yearly Results: The number of advertisers on the portal is up a bit (3.

The National Grid is asking around for thoughts on how/where to spend £500m on hiding pylons and powerlines.