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New mortgage rules prefer corporate dullards to wealthy entrepreneurs, says our resident Doer Upper Alan Page, as he misses the joys of seeing a proper bank manager. If you're rich you can't borrow.

Penthouse, NEO Bankside £19.75m The Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners-designed NEO Bankside scheme has won pretty much every property award going during its short existence, and rightly so.

It's not as if lending institutions are throwing money at consumers; if anything, they're taking too long to process mortgage offers and putting a lag on responsible transactions, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

Change of use may be all the rage in London, but how do you actually go about creating desirable, profitable units from an unloved office building?

If London's property market is indeed 'cooling off' towards the summer months, that doesn't mean it's 'reaching stagnation';

The Governor is on the money this time but Cable seriously needs to update his information, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

The exterior of a building may attract buyers initially, but it is a successfully designed interior that markets and sells a super-prime property, says Joe Burns...

Calistoga, Napa Valley, California $100m

Deep in the commuter belt, there's an emerging trend of families making a sideways move from a larger, older property into a new-build, says Darren Walter...

To continue to attract investors to our country, we need to offer the prospect of stronger returns than our European counterparts and that’s not going to be achieved by hiking up tax bills, says David…

Hans Place, Knightsbridge £13m Named after the inventor of hot chocolate (and the British Museum), Hans Sloane, this splendid garden square is right in the Knightsbridge mixer. No compromises here;

Our European counterparts are burdened with a particularly caustic mix of liabilities, and yet they still have the temerity to talk about our so called ‘overheated’ property market - what a cheek,…