Location: London

It's "a dull market in the capital" says London estate agency Douglas & Gordon, as the number of properties available to buy slumps yet further.

Holborn/Liverpool/Kuala Lumpar-based practice Falconer Chester Hall has been given the green light to do up, extend and rejig a rundown end-of-terrace in Chelsea.

A glorious Grade II* manor house in Cheshire has been listed for auction with a guide price of £350k.

According to new findings by the Credit Suisse Research Institute, there are 123,800 ultra-high net worth individuals on the planet, defined as those with a net worth of over USD 50m.

The real estate arm of concierge kings Quintessentially has launched an outpost in Hong Kong. Penny Mosgrove, MD of Quintessentially Estates

Redrow London's Managing Director has left the company to set up his own residential property business.

Gary Linton's The Linton Group has sold all the units in its first big residential scheme, a pub-to-resi project in SW10.

Topland Group has sold off a 24-unit block in Putney, which was its first  residential direct investment, for £4m more than it paid for it two years ago.

Douglas & Gordon has brought some top industry names on board

The number of cash sales across England and Wales hit 420,000 in the year to March, accounting for two-fifths of recorded transactions and adding up to a whopping total of £110bn.

When properties come up on London's Carlton House Terrace, it's generally seen as a pretty big deal.

Marsh & Parsons has boosted its Residential Development & Investment division with the hire of David Duke from Strutt & Parker.