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Cost of prime central London property taking into account currency movements, indexed to 100 in December 2011 (Source: Knight Frank)

Jones Lang LaSalle has officially launched a two-year-long collaboration with Samaritans today, with events at each of the company's UK offices.

In case you needed reminding, the trajectory of London's prime property market has resembled one of NASA's more extreme training exercises over the last few years.

The haute monde of top agency Fine & Country will wave goodbye to the miserable British weather later, as they head off to the launch of a glamorous new office on the French Riviera.

More gloom for the construction industry we're afraid.

It should be so simple... but our resident serial renovator / buying-agent-turned-client Alan Page's do-up project is having a predictably slow start to the new year...

The introduction of stringent adverse tax legislation by Francois Hollande has triggered an exodus of wealthy French nationals, buying homes outside of France.

The UK construction market is expected to turn a corner this year, albeit only in first gear, with chartered surveyors predicting output to increase in 2013, according to the latest RICS construction market…

You may have noticed that not every international property market performed like prime London last year.

The swine! says William Cash as one of Shropshire's crown jewels is once again under siege.

Our resident serial renovator / buying-agent-turned-client Alan Page lines up the crystal balls and makes some earthy predictions for London's prime property market in 2013.

In the third installment of Alan Page's "Do-Er Upper Diary", the serial renovator and buying-agent-turned-client continues his search for a property with the x-factor...