Location: Midlands

Fine & Country has set up a Land and New Homes division in Warwickshire and the West Midlands.

An extraordinary modern holiday home shoehorned into the crumbling walls of an ancient moated castle has won the RIBA Stirling Prize 2013 for the best new building of the year.

This sounds like a really bad idea: The Environment Secretary, Owen Paterson, is scheduled to announce that developers can build in National Parks, just so long as they do some  "biodiversity offsetting"…

The UK's rural estates continue to perform from an investment point of view, according to Savills' latest data, thanks mainly to strong showings from the resi and agricultural sectors.

What's the future for England's past? With a funding revolution and a sea-change in how the nation's heritage assets are valued, there's a reformation taking place at English Heritage.

For our friends over in the commercial sector, ambition is measured by the loft of a skyscraper - demonstrated to great effect by the Shard et al - but here in the residential world, it's lateral space…

Releasing the authoritative rundown of the most influential Londoners last night, the Evening Standard revealed its "Power 1000" list was topped by a mewling baby this year.

What with announcing a foray into the sales jungle last week and three new lettings offices today, Belvoir's making plenty of noise at the moment.

There's been more action at the super-prime end of the market than ever before, according to one of London's top buying agencies.

The number of planning applications for big resi schemes has rocketed by 30% in the last year, according to research by construction bods Glenigan and Barbour ABI and Knight Frank.

Taylor Wimpey has appointed a new member to its executive management team.

The most expensive residential property to be sold in July was Number Two Holland Park, for £23.3m, according to the latest set of Price Paid stats from the Land Registry.