Location: East of England

The government has announced two new "garden towns", which will get £1.1m in new funding to help deliver up to 50,000 new homes between them.

Price growth in family homes is more than seven times the national average in key regional centres, says Jackson-Stops & Staff, after looking at property prices in England’s traditional county towns.

George Osborne's third pop at the country's finances this year saw housing - or the "crisis of home ownership" - near the top of the bill.

Outdoing all other areas of prime central London over the last 12 months with a 2.6% increase in sales values, a 14.1% rise in rental values and average gross yields of 3.

170,690 new homes were added to England's total housing supply in 2014-15, representing a massive 25% increase in net additional dwellings from 2013-14, according to the latest from HMRC.

Hamptons has hired Jamie Reynolds to lead its high-performing St Albans sales team.

Property consultancy Bidwells has appointed Paula Brain as Head of New Homes, Western Region.

The big consultation into Crossrail 2 - the proposed Chelsea to Hackney line with King's Road station - is now open, and will run until 8th January 2016.

The Mayor of London has come up with a plan to "transform East London" and deliver more than 200,000 homes and 250,000 jobs.

Lord North Street co-founder William Drake joins the Chelsea-based team

"The financial strain of buying can be overstated," says Zoopla (if you ignore deposits and purchase fees etc, and bank on interest rates staying low), as the portal informs us that it's cheaper to buy…

The Walpole Group's announced the shortlists of its annual British Luxury Awards. Here's who's up for what: Best British Cultural & Creative Innovation