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Five years of political dilly-dallying over high-value property taxation has meant that there's been a "composed reaction" to the Autumn Statement's SDLT reform, notes Knight Frank, as prices in central…

The number of Londoners leaving the big smoke to set up home leapt by 50% in 2014, says Hamptons, as buyers look to cash-in on the price gap that's become more of a chasm.

Annual house price growth dropped to 7.1% in November after a 0.1% drop in October, according to the latest from the Land Registry. London's managed +17.

The evolution of Agents' Mutual's challenger portal has been the big property marketing story of the year, and its controversial "one other portal" rule means that estate agents now need to pick a side…

There's a pretty broad spread of forecasts amongst the top 15 prime property research units that have thrown in their numbers so far. PrimeResi Property Price Forecasts 2015 Prime central London: +1%

Harrods Estates has made play to position itself at the centre of the HNW London, using Dataloft to map some "huge jumps in property value the closer a resident lives to the store" and setting out a…

From rumours to record-breakers, 2014 had it all. Here's our digest of the trophy homes, transactions, tip-offs and thumbs up that made the news this year.

A survey of 2014's key business moves, company acquisitions, launches, partnerships and appointments in the high-value homes industry. Top Three Business Stories of the Year Chesterton Humberts

Glitzy international agency Engel & Völkers has been looking into the biggest deals of the year and reckons it's come up with a rundown of the most exclusive addresses on the planet right now.

The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors thinks that house prices across the UK will rise by 3% in 2015, but that there'll be no change in London. Compare all the prime property forecasts for 2015 here

Londoner's exceptions for house price growth "moderated sharply" in December, notes Knight Frank in its latest Sentiment Survey. 22.

Some of the most favoured addresses, from Kensington Palace Gardens to The Knightsbridge