Location: Prime Central London

London uber-developer Capital & Counties, the property company behind Covent Garden and Earls Court, is launching its first new-build residential development, Lillie Square in Earls Court, on Thursday.

Developers may be "exceptionally keen" to get on site, but how much of this enthusiasm is translating into completions? JLL takes the temperature of London's development market...

Localism - a cornerstone of the Government's planning reformation - is big in the affluent South, but lacks traction in the rest of the country according to research by Turley.

Rents in prime London nudged up by the smallest of margins - +0.1% - in Q1, according to Savills. But that's still an improvement on last year's gentle decline; rents are now -0.

That's 12 in a row for Knight Frank and Markit's House Price Sentiment Survey; the Index has risen again to hit another record high in March.

Values across prime central London have increased by 8.7% over the last 12 months, according to acquisition firm Huntly Hooper, with W14 seeing the biggest price per square foot boost of all.

China’s Greenland Group has dived headfirst into the London property market in 2014, with two landmark acquisitions on either side of the capital.

The Canary Wharf residential market is scaling up, and in more ways than one.

Savills has turned in a strong set of preliminary results for 2013, with the resi side of the UK business looking in particularly fine fetter.

Ed Tryon of acquisition firm Lichfields has walked away with the top property gong at the Spear's Young Turk Awards 2014.

There's a definite sense of anti-climax around these parts, even though no-one was expecting much to start with. Here's what the prime resi community thinks of today's Budget announcements...

Alchemi Group has hired construction firm John Sisk & Son to build its latest resi project in Victoria.