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There are plenty of pitfalls in the lease extension process, says Robert Marchbank; if you miss deadlines, it can have a serious financial impact... What is a lease extension?

There's a palpable sense of positivity in the high-value property industry about this week's "Blue Budget." Well, more so than usual for a Budget week.

Tregunter Road, Chelsea £25m The term "turnkey" is surely one of the most overused words in prime property lexicon.

There's some right tasty-looking projects due to go under the hammer this month. Pick of the bunch has to be this 11,500 square foot scheme in sought-after Marylebone, listed with a guide price of £7.5m+.

You may or may not recognise this building, but one Kensington agent reckons it holds the key to determining which properties command the biggest premiums in the Hyde Park area.

Scoopers of the gong for Best Residential Scheme (New Build) at the recent Property Marketing Awards, design and branding agency Identity has been explaining how its strategy helped a new scheme exceed…

West Country-rooted uber designers Smallbone claim to have pioneered the "island" concept so favoured in today's top-end kitchens, and who are we to argue with that.

Where does the law stand on drones infringing onto private property? Is it trespass? What if you can't identify the owner? Can you take the law into your own hands? 

Penthouse, The Limes, Mortlake £2.2m  This glorious riverside affair will no doubt be familiar to eagle-eyed property peeps like yourselves.

Will the current raft of multimillion pound rail improvement projects result in a cultural shift towards buyers looking further afield?

Mossop Street-based Wilben Developments has just smashed the price record on Eagle Place (you know, behind the Ferrari showroom on the Old Brompton Road) with the sale of this little beauty for £3.9m.

Redefining the pinnacle of residential real estate is a lofty task, notes Christie’s International Real Estate.