Location: Prime Outer London

Independent buying outfit Watership Property has hired former Savills Associate Tania Thompson to cover the key Cotswolds and Oxfordshire patch.

Gary Linton has managed to turn a grotty drinking establishment on the Fulham Road into a boutique apartment scheme that's selling like proverbial hotcakes.

Weston Homes has scored listed building approval for its "most ambitious scheme" yet: turning a quite magnificent Jacobean mansion in Kent into 36 apartments.

Next year will mirror this year's market, says Winkworth, with May's election as the pivot point between a quiet first half and a following rally.

After 40 months of on-the-trot growth, prices in prime outer London have finally seen a fall, dropping by 0.2% in October according to the latest from Knight Frank.

Fielden House - also known as the Baby Shard / Shardette - has been unanimously approved by Southwark's planners.

Developer and search agency Banda has snapped up a prominent former bottling factory in south west London, with designs on a top-end mixed-use scheme.

The Candy brothers have apparently tabled a bid to buy the Financial Times.

It's been an 'encouragingly strong' week of sales down at Battersea Power Station, after another swathe of apartments were made available to pre-registered and existing buyers in London.

The scale and scope of Chinese investment into the UK is changing, with the current sovereign-wealth-heavy model opening up to allow more direct spending and wider scale JVs: today's "trickle" of major…

Knight Frank has made a bundle of promotions, bumping 34 employees up to Partner level and another 69 to the Associate rank. On the residential side of the business, 25 have been made Partners:

Overseas buyers have always played a significant role in the London real estate market, says CBRE in its Global Living Report, although it's not just a British phenomenon.