Location: Prime Outer London

Scotland's Finance Secretary John Swinney has set out the new-look detail for the new Land and Buildings Transaction Tax (LBTT), which is lined up to replace SDLT in Scotland from April this year.

A Chelsea builder has reported a spike in subterranean-related enquiries on the back of the Royal Borough's anti-basement policy stance.

The owner of a £4m house in Hampstead Garden Suburb has been hit with one of the biggest fines ever handed out for unlawful renovations to a listed building.

City-based agency Hatton Real Estate has strengthened its resi offering with the appointment of Bradley Sharp from Greene & Co. Bradley Sharp

Property-focused short-and-medium-term lender Dragonfly has hired a Regional Business Development Manager to boost its capability outside of London and the South East.

Regal Homes' take on the Hampstead family home - a £16m eight bedroom affair - checks an awful lot of boxes.

So soon after Redrow's American Psycho fiasco, Berkeley Group's St George has had to pull one of its marketing videos after the internet got upset by its gaucheness.

The centre cannot hold, notes CBRE in its annual "Hot 100" report, as a widening price gyre spreads from central London to the greater capital.

In 2015, 'Prime Residential' should mean high quality homes in sought after addresses across the UK, not just in Central London, says house building boss Bob Weston...

Annual house price growth dropped to 7.1% in November after a 0.1% drop in October, according to the latest from the Land Registry. London's managed +17.

From rumours to record-breakers, 2014 had it all. Here's our digest of the trophy homes, transactions, tip-offs and thumbs up that made the news this year.

A survey of 2014's key business moves, company acquisitions, launches, partnerships and appointments in the high-value homes industry. Top Three Business Stories of the Year Chesterton Humberts