Location: East of England

Mumbles in Wales, Camber in East Sussex and Fowey in Cornwall are Britain’s top coastal price hotspots, according to Rightmove.

Agents have been reporting a marked rise in activity across the leafier boroughs of London since the pandemic took hold.

Knight Frank has identified five key locations in the UK that are most primed for major residential development in the coming years.

Tom West, Dan Day and Tatiana Khoury Naayem have signed up to national estate agency brand Mr & Mrs Clarke. All three are "brand new to the industry".

Jason Hobbs' new venture, Halifield Land, will offer land and development advice to landowners and developers in the South East.

Savills has been appointed by the Government's housing body to find a buyer for one of Eastern England's biggest resi development prospects, in Welwyn Garden City, with a GDV of c.£250m.

Former Wates and Barratt man Matt Tunley has been recruited to help realise property developer Hill's ambition to build 4,000 new home a year by 2025.

August's most popular property listings included an Essex mansion, a Cornish recording studio and a "Grand Lodge" in Staffordshire.

A shift from site-by-site to district-level building licenses has proved a boon for great crested newts, as property developers facilitate the creation of more pond habitats.

‘Modern classical residence’ will be lived in by members of the Coke family, who have called Holkham home for more than 400 years.

National estate agency Jackson-Stops has created a Suffolk Land & New Homes department, and added a Woking branch to the Surrey network.

Housebuilder Hill has donated the first batch of its "Foundation 200" free homes for the homeless, supplying 16 houses in Cambridgeshire.