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Buying agency Prime Purchase has hired a former Strutt & Parker Partner to boost its footprint in the "M40 wealth corridor".

The Royal Borough has warned property developers that they "are being closely scrutinised," after it recruited a third more planning enforcement officers to crack down on errant works.

"The largest and most eagerly anticipated development opportunity in Scotland this year" has come up in the heart of Glasgow’s affluent west end.

Buying agency Heaton & Partners is continuing its march on prime London, recruiting a new partner and opening an office in SW3.

The rate of annual price growth in country areas is catching up to urban increases, says Zoopla, but a £50k rural premium remains. The ONS' urban / rural map Urban values have risen by 5.

New asking prices are just £30 shy of last June's all-time high, says Rightmove, despite a relatively relaxed 1% rise over the last month. The number of newly-listed properties on the No.

Knight Frank's Global House Price Index dropped a touch in the last three months of 2014 - its first fall in over two years - sliding by 0.

A suburb of Cambridge has been named as the best place to live in the UK. The Sunday Times reckons Newnham has it licked, combining a village atmosphere with close proximity to a thriving city centre.

After eight years of preparation, speculation, and even a royal intervention, it's been reported that construction work has finally begun at the 13-acre Chelsea Barracks site on Chelsea Bridge Road.

Grosvenor Britain & Ireland has appointed Simon Harding-Roots as Executive Director, Major Projects, London estate.

An apartment at 7 Palace Gate, the former home of painter and illustrator Sir John Everett Millais, has just come up for sale for a shade under £5m.

"Borrowers can now snap up some of the lowest mortgage rates on record," says Hamptons, and it's the top-end of the market that's seeing the benefit.