Location: Midlands

What on earth is going on with 2-8a Rutland Gate... ...is the question most property peeps will be asking this morning.

A buyer has apparently just offered £280m for 2-8a Rutland Gate in Knightsbridge.

A hugely important country estate that once belonged to Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester has been put up for sale in Warwickshire.

Kensington Palace Gardens is well ahead of the pack as always, with a current average price of £42,591,972

"We have to move Britain from a low-wage, high-tax, high-welfare society to a higher-wage, lower-tax, lower-welfare economy," said Chancellor George (four times) as he delivered a very Conservative Budget;

There's some right tasty-looking projects due to go under the hammer this month. Pick of the bunch has to be this 11,500 square foot scheme in sought-after Marylebone, listed with a guide price of £7.5m+.

The entire contents of the 45-bedroom 2-8a Rutland Gate - which has been on the market since 2012 with a rumoured asking prices of £300m - are to be auctioned off online in "an unprecedented opportunity."

Halifax's annual look at the net worth of a square metre of real estate across the UK has shown RBKC to be tickling £12k per m2.

The average property price in England and Wales didn't move in May, leaving the annual change at +4.6%, according to the latest from the Land Registry.

Savills has "relaunched its weather balloon" into the post-election atmosphere to gauge the new temperature of the property market, taking the opportunity to urge all political parties to help avoid the…

Will the current raft of multimillion pound rail improvement projects result in a cultural shift towards buyers looking further afield?

Most estate agency partners / directors / business owners earn between £41,000 and £50,000, according to some research by property software people Expert Agents. Estate agency "boss" salaries