Location: Prime Central London
Strutt & Parker buying trio go it alone to launch new advisory
            Three key members of Strutt & Parker's acquisitions arm Private Property Search have left the fold to set up their own buying consultancy.
 Hugh Dixon, Deborah Walker & James Geddes
        
    Opening Night: Shoreditch Stage breaks City launch sales records
            Galliard's £750m resi development on the site of William Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch - The Stage - has opened with a pretty rapturous first night performance, with £60m-worth of flats…        
    Oakhill sets up shop in West Hampstead
            Oakhill Residential, the agency set up by former Goldschmidt & Howland man Lee Cash, has put down roots in West Hampstead.
        
    Hamptons appoints new central London lettings boss
            Hamptons International has appointed Boutaina Cansicka as its new Central London Regional Lettings Director.
        
    Why the Panama Papers’ legacy of tax avoidance began with Blair & Brown
            Morality aside, who can blame the world's super-rich from heading to London and taking advantage of legal tax efficiencies, asks William Cash         
    £1.4bn merger creates ‘a new force’ in UK resi investment
            Qatari Diar, APG and Delancey have pooled resources to create a gigantor for the Private Rented Sector with ambitions "to become the leading player in the delivery of professionally managed homes in London…        
    Prime central London gets a spring in its step as sales volumes rise
            A 'sense of impetus' was noted in the prime central London market last month, with the first rise in transaction volumes recorded this year.
        
    Cain Hoy completes on landmark South Audley Street acquisition
            Developer Cain Hoy has finalised its purchase of a significant chunk of Mayfair's South Audley Street.
The 48,000 square foot Queen Anne style affair at No.        
    Wolf Curbs: Why ‘bonus season’ has disappeared from prime central London
            Fundamental changes in the financial sector have put pay to the pick-up in activity traditionally seen during the first two months of the year from bankers, notes Knight Frank...
        
    AccorHotels acquires luxury serviced home firm onefinestay for £117m
            International hotel operator AccorHotels has bought onefinestay - a high-end and fully-serviced London-based version of Airbnb - for £117m, with big plans to roll out the rental business in more locations…        
    Grosvenor reshuffles its top table
            Grosvenor Group is moving the chairs around its top table, creating a new Group Chief Exec role and promoting two, all with effect from 1st January 2017.
        
    Goldsmith v Khan: London’s leading mayoral candidates’ housing policies head-to-head
            With one month to go until polling day, there's still clear water between the leading pair of candidates – Conservative Zac Goldsmith and Labour's Sadiq Khan – and the rest of the Mayoral hopeful pack…