Location: Prime Central London

The battle for Hyde Park Barracks just got even tastier, with reports of new Middle Eastern-backed consortium entering the fray.

Emerging Prime areas in SW London continue to drive some of the best returns on investment, according to Douglas & Gordon, outstripping PCL for the third year on the bounce.

The honey-hued period architecture of Somerset will take centre stage at The Georgian Group's HQ on Fitzroy Square later this month.

Property developer Galliard, which formed a major JV with US investment house Cain Hoy late last year, has sold its luxury scheme in Westminster off-market for £28.6m.

A plan to regenerate "a substantial section of Chiswick High Road and underutilised sites along Essex Place" with a snazzy-looking resi and mixed scheme has been given the green light by Hounslow's planners.

Last week's successful launch of OnTheMarket.com demonstrates to the big media groups that agents can do the job just as well, if not better, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

Boutique property buying/property management outfit The Collection LLP has hired Barbara Malcolm as Property Manager, in charge of the firm's burgeoning PCL portfolio.

A planning officer from Westminster Council has put the kibosh on the Qatari royal family's efforts to create a 33,000 square foot mansion in Regent's Park.

The Malins Group, the developer behind 2013's Apple Apartments scheme on Baker Street, has lined up another cultural landmark for a prime resi conversion.

Stanley Crescent, Notting Hill £9.5m The key to successful property development, as we are constantly told, is to remain rational throughout. Don't get carried away. Or bite off more than you can chew.

The man behind CBRE's meteoric rise into the resi big league, Chairman of Residential Mark Collins discusses his ambitions for the business, the most undervalued parts of PCL, and the boutique developers…

How do you reposition a sleepy backwater into one of the world's top luxury destinations?