Location: South East

Strutt & Parker has had a rather good year, posting a 22% increase in revenues and a 60% jump in pre-tax operating profits. In the year to 30th April 2014, the firm brought in £102.

Recruitment outfit Deverell Smith has reported a significant increase in the number of roles being offered in country house departments across the South of England, a shift it's putting down to rising transaction…

An early contender for Bargain of the Year, this 34,250 square foot Grade II-listed mansion in Devon has just been sold for £600k, after being deemed 'simply too big for most people'.

£1m+ sales outside London waxed by 44% year-on-year between January and June 2014, says Knight Frank, as prime country house prices bulged by 4.7% in the year to Q3 2014.

Top-end Surrey estate agency and OnTheMarket.com devotee Barton Wyatt has broken ranks to publicly announce which portal it'll be dropping under Agents' Mutual's two portal rule.

Some deserving accolades were dished out to some of the prime resi industry's finest at last week's WhatHouse? Awards.

It's ok, we're not going to report on all of these, but interesting to note that another prime agency has gone public today with the portal it'll be dropping when OnTheMarket.

Carter Jonas has just sold one of Hampshire’s landmark properties for above asking, after receiving bids from all over the world.

Hugo Thistlethwayte will be stepping down as Managing Director of Savills' buying arm Prime Purchase, which he helped to found back in 2002, in January.

The number of resi transactions across England and Wales is now at nearly double its credit crunch low-point, says London Central Portfolio, after a 27.8% increase over the last 12 months.

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