Location: East of England

A plan to regenerate "a substantial section of Chiswick High Road and underutilised sites along Essex Place" with a snazzy-looking resi and mixed scheme has been given the green light by Hounslow's planners.

Marsh & Parsons is starting off a quartet of new office openings slated for this year with a Shoreditch branch.

Omni Capital and Prime City have paired up to transform an old office building in Chiswick into 19 luxury apartments.

Property gigantor Countrywide says it is "poised to deliver record results in 2014 in line with expectations despite recent market slow-down."

Another week, another new acquisition by Carter Jonas, this time in the shape of two Cambridge-based property firms.

Rising seas could obliterate 7,000 properties around Britain over the next hundred years, according to some sobering new research by the Environment Agency.

One of the most infamous properties in London just got more so, after reportedly being snapped up by a wealthy smut peddler.

From rumours to record-breakers, 2014 had it all. Here's our digest of the trophy homes, transactions, tip-offs and thumbs up that made the news this year.

A survey of 2014's key business moves, company acquisitions, launches, partnerships and appointments in the high-value homes industry. Top Three Business Stories of the Year Chesterton Humberts

Penthouse, Cambridge House, One Tower Bridge £15m

Belgravia's Grosvenor Crescent has been named The Most Expensive Street in England & Wales by Lloyds Bank, with an average house price of £16,918,000. Grosvenor Crescent

Minister of State for Housing and Planning Brandon Lewis has been busy updating Parliament on the coalition government's attempts at freeing up the planning system.