Location: Prime Central London

Savills Mayfair has reported a strong run of sales in Connaught Village, describing the Bayswater neighbourhood as a ‘hidden gem’.

Coutts bank has highlighted some prime London locations that have seen notable shifts in property buying activity compared to pre-pandemic times.

Former Grosvenor man Simon Harding-Roots will be joining in September.

Elston Developments and Michaelis Boyd Associates are said to be on the teamsheet.

Kensington & Chelsea was home to six of the top ten London wards with the highest levels of inflation last year - one of which posted a seven-figure increase in the average price.

"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".