Location: Prime Outer London

Jamie Lester's Haus Properties has hired one of Foxtons' best sales negotiators to boost its new Fulham operation.

Cogress, an "open equity investment platform for property", has pulled off a £1.35m fundraise within 24 hours to back a high-end four-townhouse scheme in Fulham.

We're still only a month in, but Jackson-Stops & Staff has already come up with a few resi development trends for 2016. Here's a quick overview... Developers spread their wings

Transport for London (TfL) has named 13 property development companies and consortiums to a development framework which will see resi and commercial re-inventions of some of the capital's most wanted locations.

Resale flats within 100 metres of the Thames on the 27-mile stretch between Teddington Lock and the Royal Docks show an average price premium of 13.

Holland Park's double-fronted villas regularly command some of London's loftiest prices, but not many come with scope to more than triple the space on offer.

Chestertons has opened the doors to its 34th London office. The all-new Richmond Hill base will cover the wider Richmond area and link up with existing branches in Kew, East Sheen, Barnes and Chiswick.

The market moved away from typecasting the buyer as being a particular nationality some time ago and we can now add age into the mix, says Joe Burns.

There was a "significant increase" in the number of African and UK buyers from abroad in prime central London in Q4 compared to the previous year, says Strutt & Parker.

It's still only January, but one of the biggest deals of 2016 has been confirmed up in Hampstead Garden Suburb.

An unusual proposition has come up on one of Hampstead's best turnings. Two adjacent plots are being offered on Redington Road, each with full planning permission for a chunky family residence.