Location: East of England

Property barons David and Simon Reuben - owners of the old In and Out Club, Connaught House on Mount Street, Millbank Tower and 5 Hertford Street - have landed planning consent to convert a Piccadilly…

The number of £1m+ sales has shot up by 80% in London since 2006/7, helping the quantity of seven-figure deals across the country to probably breach its 2007 peak for the first time in 2014, notes Savills.

Good schools, unsurprisingly, top the reasons to purchase property across the UK, according to Jackson-Stops & Staff, who've gone round all 44 of their offices in an attempt to compile the top five trends…

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