Location: Midlands

Zoopla's average property price across Britain increased by 2.

Knight Frank has ramped up its Central New Homes offering with three senior hires, after a raft of new business wins across the region.

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

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

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

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…