Location: London

15,000 home-owners have apparently been sent a letter that suggests that their properties will be subject to a  Compulsory Purchase Order to make way for the HS2 rail link.

Demand is outstripping supply by a factor of ten, as an average of 9.7 buyers chased each property for sale in November, according to Countrywide. That's up from 8.

Douglas & Gordon's Ed Mead is taking on a new role as Executive Director of the agency. Mead. D&G front man, FRICS, PrimeResi contributor

RICS London is launching a residential forum to complement its existing Commercial Property Market Forum, and has made a couple of "important new leadership appointments" to make it all happen:

Forming part of the "Brits Who Built the Modern World" season, this newish display at the V&A - the first part of a major exhibition organised by the Royal Institute of British Architects - is well worth…

International buyers accounted for 56.5% of Chelsea specialist Russell Simpson's sales last year, while nearly three quarters of new tenants were from overseas.

London's £5m+ market broke all the records for volume and value in 2013, says Savills, but price growth at the top of the top-end was slower than the capital's prime market's average, and per square foot…

The heart over-rules the head for many buyers of 'Billionaire Property' says Stephen Rees, Head of Real Estate Advisory at Coutts, in the second part of the bank's Objects of Desire report into passion…

December kicked right off in Douglas & Gordon's patch, with a 50% increase in the number of properties hitting the market, a 20% jump in new buyer registrations and a 40% hike in the number of offers received.

Northacre has been confirmed as the development manager on the much-anticipated 1 Palace Street scheme, right next to Buckingham Palace. Under the terms of an agreement with Palace Revive Ltd.

Savills has launched a new interactive property price map of the UK by pointing out that house prices rose, on average, by 7% in 2013.

In the first part of Coutts' new Objects of Desire Index - which charts the returns on "passion investments" from trophy homes and classic cars to jewels and wine - Mohammad Kamal Syed, Head of Strategic…