Location: Prime Central London

"Happy holiday for luxury London property", declares Coutts bank, as the prolonged Stamp Duty tax break drives record sales in the capital.

Prospective Hillbillies are offering up to £1m above pre-pandemic levels, and houses are not even making it to the open market, reports Winkworth.

Runaway property price growth in the regions is likely to soften from next year, predicts Savills, while Prime Central London prices are set for a sharp upwards bounce once international travel resumes.

This 4,291 sq ft duplex apartment on Upper Grosvenor Street was once home to Dowager Duchess Lady Eleanor Percy.

A Holland Park landmark on Ladbroke Road is being marketed for sale by the Mayor’s Office of Policing & Crime.

Gothic-style affair on Farm Street is a real one-off.

London has seen "a normalisation of single-storey basements as the 21st-century version of the loft conversion," says Professor Burrows in a new study of the capital's "luxified troglodytism".

Simon Ismail & Fred Done’s Salboy has acquired a prime site in the Earls Court regen zone.

Transaction volumes were 39% below the five-year average last month, reports LonRes, but ‘key metrics suggest the prime London markets are holding up well’.

The UK property market should start putting the distortions of the last 18 months behind it from the autumn, says Tom Bill

“The see-saw of high supply and low demand is tipping back the other way,” says Knight Frank. “Demand is coming from multiple sources and rental values are getting stronger as a result.”

A mansion once remodelled by Lutyens is reportedly headed for the ultra-prime rental market after a £30m-£40m refurb.