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China’s Greenland Group has dived headfirst into the London property market in 2014, with two landmark acquisitions on either side of the capital.

Localism - a cornerstone of the Government's planning reformation - is big in the affluent South, but lacks traction in the rest of the country according to research by Turley.

Savills has turned in a strong set of preliminary results for 2013, with the resi side of the UK business looking in particularly fine fetter.

Alchemi Group has hired construction firm John Sisk & Son to build its latest resi project in Victoria.

There's a definite sense of anti-climax around these parts, even though no-one was expecting much to start with. Here's what the prime resi community thinks of today's Budget announcements...

The world's top ten property portal companies are worth a combined £18 billion, according to some new stats on the matter.

Chancellor George has extended the 15% SDLT rate for residential property bought through a corporate envelope from £2m all the way to £500,000, in a move that looks to be aimed squarely at cutting the…

Britain's cities are "on a collision course to be overrun with bland, homogenous developments,” warns Battersea Power Station's Head of Design and Placemaking in a new book on urban development around…

Skipton in North Yorkshire,  Newnham in Cambridge, Monmouth in Wales and Falmouth in Cornwall have been named as "The Best Places to Live" in Britain by The Sunday Times.

House prices around the world rose by 8.4% in 2013 (1.2% in Q4), according to Knight Frank;

Buying a house in France is one thing, says Alan Page; owning it under Monsieur Hollande's regime is quite another. Which means that Riviera brokers' books are bulging with unsold second homes;

Nicky Richmond hears talk of silly money and perfect storms on her last night in Cannes... As ever, the flight home is very quiet.