Location: Prime Outer London

The finalists of this year's SBID International Design Awards have been announced, with public voting now open to source a winner in time for a presentation ceremony at The Dorchester on 27th November.

Foxtons has set itself a target to expand its network of offices within the M25 from the current 58 to 100 in the next five years.

More than 700 London buildings will be opening their doors to the public on the 19th and 20th September for this year's Open House Weekend.

A Hampstead man has apparently had to shell out a whopping £180k to keep a two-storey basement he knocked up without planning permission. Norrice Lea

New research has shown how properties on the fringes of London's Royal Parks have outperformed the rest of PCL by quite the margin in recent years.

The latest data dump from the Land Registry has shown a monthly price increase of +1.7% across England & Wales, bringing the annual change to +4.6%. Transaction levels have taken a right pounding though.

Foxtons is continuing to expand at a fair lick across Outer London, unveiling two new offices in Surbiton and Croydon and taking its 2015 launch tally to seven.

One of Hampstead's most important period mansions has just come up for sale.The former home of the plastic surgery pioneer Sir Harold Delf Gillies, 71 Frognal has hit the market for a cool £18.95m.

Chestertons' senior management have been "back to the floor" to try their hands at the daily grind of being a London estate agent, raising £14,000 for local charities in the process.

Transactions levels are still a way off last year's levels, says Hamptons International, but "that may now be beginning to change," with the capital's prime fringes and commuter hubs feeling the first…

London's garden squares "are seeing a residential revival", with some super high-end projects returning buildings around central green spaces back to their original use.