Location: South East

Fine & Country has opened its seventh office in Surrey, on St Judes Road, Englefield Green. Paul Garrod is running the show, which will specialise in marketing £800k+ homes.

A "landmark" development site on the banks of the Thames in South Buckinghamshire has been put up for sale by Irish "bad bank" NAMA, after an option by Barratt Homes expired.

Almacantar has reportedly secured a £220m monster-loan from US-based Starwood Property Trust and Starwood European Real Estate Finance for its ambitious Centre Point redevelopment.

South east agency Waterfords has decided to launch a dedicated Ascot sales team to complement its existing offerings across the highly competitive Surrey/Berkshire patch.

Grosvenor has bought a 12-acre swathe of Bermondsey and Southwark in South London, on which it plans to build 800 new homes and a business hub.

Proving there really is no rest for the wicked, one Surrey-based agent has invested in a 24-hour telephone reception service (featuring a real human) to make sure it doesn't miss out on international calls…

In the second part of Candy & Candy's GPS Report, Savills' Yolande Barnes and Paul Tostevin break down where the rich are buying what, focusing on luxury enclaves of "play" properties around the globe.

The property investment group headed up by Sol Zakay - Topland - has deployed £100m-worth of loans in the last three months alone, as its focus on high-profile prime resi development projects continues. 

There's more good signs coming out of the prime country market, with Q3 delivering the fastest pace of price growth in over three years according to Knight Frank.

Home to Middle Eastern royalty, international business tycoons and a host of famous faces including Sir Bruce Forsyth, Formula One's Eddie Jordan and golfer Ernie Els, the Wentworth Estate in Virginia…

The private rented sector is ballooning, with Savills estimating that, by 2018, 5.7 million in England (one in five households) will be renting in the private sector.

Savills has been number-crunching the latest stats from within the UK's prime regional markets and it looks like we've just seen positive growth across the whole of England for the first time in two and…