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King George III Suite, Albury Park, Surrey £6m As far as reception rooms go, this 42-foot marvel, the actual venue for King George III's Coronation Banquet in 1761, is hard to beat.

John D Wood & Co has teamed up with Truro-based 17-branch estate agency Country & Waterside to expand its reach in the South West.

Chestertons has amped up its Middle Eastern presence with a joint venture with Saudi-based MEDAD Valuation International (part of the Najeeb Abdullatif Alissa Holding Company).

Home Counties estate agent Waterfords has moved into a new "flagship office" in Fleet after out-growing its old space.

A British housebuilder has been signed up to deliver £300m worth of luxury resi across the Middle East, including a take on Kensington's super-prime Phillimores development.

Apart from convenience, what can a new ensuite bathroom add to your average £1.6m property in London?

The number of residential lots offered and sold at auction didn't move by a huge amount last year, but the value raised by the gavel soared by over 14%. The quantity of lots nudged up by 1.

Rising seas could obliterate 7,000 properties around Britain over the next hundred years, according to some sobering new research by the Environment Agency.

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...

Weston Homes has landed the former Wellcome Factory in Kent with designs on an £80m mixed-use scheme. The national housebuilder bought the 7.

What are the very best new residential schemes in London, and which luxury property developers are the ones to watch in the coming year?