Location: London

Ears were bound to prick up when a £5.25m apartment was offered "By Appointment of Receivers" earlier today, but few could have expected the address to be quite so prominent...

"We are not living in boom times" says a report from the Arbuthnot Banking Group.

Fancy brushing up on your knowledge of the capital's preeminent abodes? Better pop this in the diary then;

Strutt & Parker has snagged one of the top names in PCL resi sales with the appointment of Casper Tham from Sotheby's. Casper Tham

Marcus Cooper's magic touch has been in evidence again.

Number One Grosvenor Square, currently the Canadian High Commission, is to be sold off for either residential or hotel use.

There's a great deal riding - and rising - on London's Southbank right now.

The seventh Luxury Property Show is looming: the Hurlingham Club in leafy Fulham will once again play home to many of the world's most swanky pads and big spenders as the Show rolls in to town on the 29th…

Stopgap lender Dragonfly has been involved in a pretty high-profile project on Dunraven Street, Mayfair...

It sounds like EA Shaw has had a good run following its acquisition by CBRE, with the agent's latest quarterly residential report showing rises in demand, prices and transactions across the board.

Where square footage is at a premium, developing the space above a building can unlock sky-high rewards.

Hamptons has opened up a major new resi sales office to cover the vogueish Hyde Park and Bayswater areas, taking the estate agency's London sales network to 29 offices - nine of which have opened within…