Location: Prime Central London

Berkeley Square is being taken over by property developers again.

Jessica Simpson is joining Strutt & Parker's independent buying arm Private Property Search from Savills.

Confiscating the piggy banks of notable Russian oligarchs is laughable, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

96% of mortgages applied for in February were for fixed rate set-ups - a record high proportion - according to stats from independent broker the Mortgage Advice Bureau.

"The old order has gone," proclaims JLL. "Whereas 10 years ago there were 100 cities on the investor’s radar, now there are 300, and over 600 routinely enquired about by corporates.

Demand for luxury stock in London's prime areas continues to surge and developers remain keen to capitalise.

Sharia investment is booming around the world but the UK's 10,000 Muslim millionaires "are still limited in their options," says prime central London property investment house LCP.

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.