Location: London

"The mood music in the UK has become much more upbeat in recent months," says Gráinne Gilmore in Knight Frank's latest residential market report. Average house prices rose by 0.

830 of the capital's finest buildings will welcome in the public on the 21st and 22nd September as part of Open House London, with ballots now open for visits to four particularly premium sites: 10 Downing…

Grosvenor might, we hear, be considering flogging it's 11-15 Grosvenor Crescent office-to-resi scheme , otherwise known as Project Falcon, to luxury developer Wainbridge Estates.

Reddy Architecture + Urbanism has got the lead architect gig for a £50m 23 storey, mixed use retail and residential development in the middle of London's Aldgate.

It sounds like Roman Abramovich has put his plan to renovate a mansion on the banks of the Thames in Chelsea on hold for the time being.

It sounds like overseas buyers still can't get enough of London's boxfresh developments.

Free the leviathan of residential construction from the callous shackles of planning control, says Edward Keene... What sort of London are we building?

"Significant investor demand" has prompted London Central Portfolio to open up the doors again to its Sharia-compliant London Central Apartments fund.

Sales of £1m+ houses in London rocketed by 31% in Q2 of this year, according to the latest from Chesterton Humberts, as the agency revises its house price forecasts to a +8.2% for the year.

Telly presenter-turned-developer Kevin McCloud has harnessed the power of the internet to raise a cool £1m and grow his Bristol-based property firm.

Buying off-plan has come a very long way since the days of crossed fingers and sums on the back of a ciggy packet, but it can still feel like taking a punt.

Pre-completion sales across the capital have reached record levels, according to CBRE, with three in five homes now sold before they are built.