Location: London

West Country city named overall 2017 winner by the Sunday Times

Biggest March rise since 2007, reports Rightmove, on a par with last year's stamp duty-beating surge

Lenders complete significant loan for Docklands hotel and resi development

...as investments to date reach £1.25 billion

Correlation is not causation, but it does look like house prices and some crime rates follow eachother

Expansion continues with new operations added in Cheltenham, Kingsbury, Milford-on-Sea and Brentford

Apartment in the former home of Robert Lord Boothby on Eaton Square goes under the hammer at £200k+; flat roof with airspace on Palace Gardens Terrace offered at £25k+

'Pioneering investors will focus their attention on outer London in the year ahead'

'The days of the up-market developer of single houses are over' warns one of London's top buying agents in a Spring round-up of prime property markets and developments

Former Chancellor George Osborne set to replace Sarah Sands as Editor in May

Influential housebuilder reports robust demand with cancellation rates at normal levels; profits expected to be 'at the top of analysts' expectations'

The Knight Frank Global House Price Index increased by 6% in 2016, up from 4.1% in 2015