Location: East of England

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.

Hill Group has showcased its prototype "Foundation 200" house, 200 of which will be built and donated to homeless people over the next five years.

Jane Duncan Architects is reported to have admitted that it "fell below the standard of a reasonably competent architect" on a private residential project in Hertfordshire, but is contesting the extent…

Strong exam results, high life expectancy, excellent health and happiness scores, and high average earnings helped the area secure the top spot in this year's Halifax Quality of Life survey;