Location: Prime Central London

CBRE has reported 60% spike in sales in Q3 this year compared to last in Midtown - twixt Mayfair and the City - as buyers look beyond Mayfair and Knightsbridge.

Wilton Street, Belgravia £14.25m

Homeowners still tend to think that the value of their property is on the up, although "there is a clear shift towards a more moderate view of current and future price growth potential," says Knight Frank.

It looks like the King's Road option, rather than the World's End, is the front-runner for the location of a new Crossrail 2 station in Chelsea.

The Soho Works Estate, a half-acre site fronting both Great Marlborough Street and Poland Street, has just been listed for sale with a £67.5m price tag.

The Malins Group has bought a slice of Covent Garden to turn into four high-spec apartments.

Knight Frank has just opened the doors to its new office on Barnes High Street, SW London.

Derwent London's redevelopment of a former cinema on Queensway has got off to a flyer, with 50% of the units selling within the first two weeks of launch.

City/Docklands/Midtown-based agency Hurford Salvi Carr has been totting up the price movements across its patch during 2014, and come up with an average increase of 4% on the sales side.

Savills has announced plans to open a new office in Aberdeen's West End, offering the full gamut of resi and commercial property services.

Asking prices have dropped by 1.7% in the last month, says Rightmove, as the traditional winter slowdown kicks in. This year has seen prices of new instructions hitting the portal rise by 8.

Developer British Land has announced pre-tax profits of £1.04 bn in its half-yearly results statement this morning, up from £422m in the same period last year.