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Buckinghamshire law firm BP Collins LLP has boosted its burgeoning property team with the appointment of four new associates.

"The usual October trend" has seen asking prices jump by 2.6% this month, according to Rightmove.

Mount Anvil and FABRICA by A2Dominium are launching their first joint venture today;

Capco has made its first foray into the luxury rental market in Covent Garden, with a new scheme on Southampton Street.

The only surviving remnant of the Royal Palace of Esher has become available to rent for £15k a month.

The champagne corks are popping beyond the protest lines at Olympia as the winners of the inaugural MIPIM UK and Estates Gazette Awards are revealed.

A former County Homesearch operator and a former Fine & Country Director have set up as independent buying agents in West Wales.

Warren Buffett's looking to do a Virgin, turning his Berkshire Hathaway company name into a global consumer brand.

Average house prices are in for a 30% increase over the next five years, with London (not PCL, mind;

Unofficial monarchs of the Chipping Norton set Matthew Freud and Elisabeth Murdoch probably didn't appreciate all that newspaper coverage over the weekend, but such is life that speculation has already…

Hot on the heels of the JLL and W.A.Ellis merger this week, we hear Carter Jonas has also just fortified its resi presence in the capital by acquiring a high-end, two-office independent in SW London.

Vast swathes of prime real estate could be about to become available in central London, as the Government announces plans to sell off more than 80% of its sites and up sticks to the suburbs.