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Industry veteran and RICS Fellow Peter Goldsmith has joined the Chestertons board as non-exec director.

British Land has reported an "excellent" year for the resi side of the business, despite the pre-election heebie-jeebies. Clarges Mayfair on Piccadilly

Property prices in prime central London nudged up by 0.3% in April, says Knight Frank, to take the annual rate of growth at a five-year low of +2.8%.

Population, employment levels and average earnings are all set to rise faster in the capital than in the rest of the country over the next 15 years, predicts Oxford Economics, and that means that "average…

Some councils in London are turning down nearly two thirds of the planning applications they receive, according to a review of all the proposals submitted over the last 12 months.

Average prices in prime central London have dropped by 8% since Q4 2014, while transaction levels collapsed by 22.

The super-luxe Meier on Rothschild Tower in Tel Aviv has officially joined the world's high-rise apartment scheme elite after racking up a whopping £165m in sales.

Over 1,200 residential property folks dropped into Grosvenor House last night for the 2015 RESI Awards.

Turns out there were some serious buyers around last month after all. One of the biggest deals to ever go down in W11 completed just a few weeks before the General Election, PrimeResi has learned.

New research has named Esher in Surrey as the most expensive place to rent a two-bed property outside of the capital.

With the pre-election stand-off morphing into a post-election face-off, those buyers who are able to move quickly will typically be the ones snaffling up all the best instructions.

It could have been a very different story, but Friday's unexpected result already appears to have triggered a flurry of trophy-level instructions across the country.