Location: London

Developer Alchemi Group has just sold its giant resi scheme at 33 Horseferry Road (opposite the Home Office) in a deal worth £137m.

The resi sales market in the West End has "soared" since the election, reports CBRE, with enquiry levels and average values both up by nearly a third.

Prime London property prices ticked up by 0.8% in Q2 - the first rise since September 2014, and quite the change from Q1's -0.6% - as "investors strengthen their hold" on the PCL market.

39% of all buyers in prime central London during Q2 were originally from overseas, says Strutt & Parker, with a noticeable increase in buyers from Western and Eastern Europe, as well as from North America.

Savills plc's global revenue shot up by 27%to £547m in the first half of the year, despite "the expected weakness in the UK Residential market."

The lettings team at Harrods Estates has landed a peach of an instruction in W1.

Foxtons is reporting that a record number - 85% - of all its tenancies are renewing contracts.

As the man responsible for some of the capital's most lavish private leisure complexes, architect David Wolff knows a thing or two about what makes the ultimate indoor swimming pool.

In an unusual move, the landlord of a rental property on Mulberry Walk is tempting prospective tenants with carte blanche to completely redecorate a whole house.

Britain's 'ability to buy' is better now than it was in 1997, says Hamptons International, as the affordability of housing has improved in recent months.

A top PCL recruitment consultant has decided to tap into the Midlands property market with his new venture.

How's this for a soft launch... Over 1,000 buyers have already enquired about apartments in the soon-to-be-transformed Shell Centre, less than a week after the registration process began.