Location: Prime Central London

Mayfair-based buying firm Black Brick has just taken on a couple of new recruits, hiring former Foxtons man Jamie Burnhope as buying consultant and Sophie Amasha as property manager. Jamie Burnhope

After a good ten years at the top, the Duke of Westminster is no longer the richest investor in UK property.

UK house prices are now 6.5% up on the year, having risen by 0.6% in November. Prime central London, however, is getting comfortable  in the (relatively) slow-lane, with prices rising by just 0.

Warm on the heels of Savills' warnings about oversupply at the top end of the market, One Hyde Park supremo Nick Candy has also been voicing his concerns about the number of prime and super-prime schemes…

Marsh & Parsons is expecting London prices to "stabilise" next year, with annual growth of between 5-7%. After recording a chunky 10.

As the London property market continues to surge, some of the high pressure tactics deployed in the previous boom are back with a vengeance.

The Daily Mail's been reporting about The Duchess (Middleton) causing strife in the village by replacing traditional Georgian roof tiles with "Barratt Homes" red ones. The horror.

Sounds like there's a prime spending spree in the offing; Grosvenor has raised £210m of unsecured long term debt to "help finance forthcoming investment in Belgravia."

Marketed with an "absurdly" low guide price of £250k, it's been billed as "the bargain basement mansion", but whoever buys the Grade I-listed Halswell House in Somerset at auction next week will need…

Prime developer Northacre is planning to raise around £12.5m through a £4.

George Osborne is limbering up right now to deliver his Autumn Statement on the second biggest day of the financial calendar. We'll be covering the relevant bits from 11.15.

Stretching the definitions of "Autumn", the Chancellor has just delivered his annual Autumn Statement.