Location: Prime Central London

Chestertons has opened the doors to its 34th London office. The all-new Richmond Hill base will cover the wider Richmond area and link up with existing branches in Kew, East Sheen, Barnes and Chiswick.

Average property prices across England and Wales increased by 6.4% last year, after pushing up by 1.2% in December, according to the latest from the Land Registry.

Berkeley Homes has signed up a flagship restaurant at its 419-unit ultra-prime One Tower Bridge development;

It's still only January, but one of the biggest deals of 2016 has been confirmed up in Hampstead Garden Suburb.

There was a "significant increase" in the number of African and UK buyers from abroad in prime central London in Q4 compared to the previous year, says Strutt & Parker.

The supply of available housing "has almost halved in ten years", according to the latest National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) December Housing Market report, with an average of 37 properties available…

The number of new-build apartments offering 5* hotel-style amenities - from 24-hour concierges and valet parking to spa suites and in-house luxury retail - has ballooned in the last decade, expanding out from…

A comprehensive "Domesday Book" of all the public land in London has been unveiled online.

Last week's Council of Mortgage Lenders numbers (reported here) show that gross mortgage lending for the UK is, overall, on the rise.

CBRE has brought all of its central London and South East land development operations under one banner to create "the largest and only mixed use development team covering all 33 London Boroughs".

"The entire developed property universe" is worth roughly US$217tr, with residential real estate accounting for the lion's share, according to some sums by Savills; that's around 2.