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More gloom for the construction industry we're afraid.

Converting offices into residential units will no longer need planning permission if rumours are right about about "radical changes to the English planning system." Let the goldrush begin.

More than 100 units at London development Battersea Power Station were snapped up by Singaporean property buyers and investors in just one day, in what the developer and agency said were record levels…

Britain's biggest estate agency network, Countrywide, is reported to be planning to go public once again.

Winkworth is carrying on its January expansion with gusto, opening its second new office of the year in Beaconsfield.

No sign of a Blue Monday for buying agency Black Brick, which has reported a raft of new domestic and international client sign-ups already this month (interestingly, all owner-occupiers rather than investors)…

Paddy Allen & Pete Wargent We hear there's a new acquisition agency about to make waves in the prime residential scene... 

There's a new kid in town - well he's actually been around for a while, but high-end residential developer Mark Witzenfeld has just launched Huntsman Property, London’s newest property acquisition company. 

Hamptons International have joined the ranks of estate agents reporting a glowing start to the new year, with 6% more properties for sale at the beginning of January compared to the same time last year.

Prime property prices are now 53% higher than their 2009 "post-crisis slump" level, whilst the mainstream market is struggling with the spectre of triple-dip recession, according to a neat summary of where…

Savills have come up with a nifty way of getting their property forecasts out there, launching an interactive "Five Year Forecast Tool" that can be used either straight from the Savills website, or be…

Prime developer Native Land has finally completed on the purchase of a major development site at 30 Old Burlington Street, smack bang in the middle of Mayfair.