Location: South West

Originally intended as both a palatial country house and an advertisement for the quality of the local stone, Prior Park remains one of the country's finest examples of Georgian architecture.

Savills has launched a new interactive property price map of the UK by pointing out that house prices rose, on average, by 7% in 2013.

"The London influence on the rest of the UK remains weak," says Jackson-Stops & Staff, which has led to two very distinct markets emerging from the economic woes of the last five years.

Egerton Crescent in South Kensington has been given the title of "Nation's Most Expensive Address" by Lloyds Bank for the second year running, with an average sale price of £7,369,000.

After wrestling the title of Britain's most expensive seaside resort from Sandbanks last year, Salcombe in South Devon could soon be adding another feather to its guano-covered cap.

2013 was a truly vintage year for vintage property.

It might be a bit late - even for Santa - to organise this year, but which properties would the professionals like to wake up and find the keys to on Wednesday morning? 

2013 has been an "interesting" year in the market for farms and land, according to Chesterton Humberts (or "up and down" in other words).

Mayfair resi sales are 25% up on last year, but are still 75% below their 2007 boom-time peak,  according to the area's top estate agent Wetherell's (with a 25% market share according to Lonres) review…

According to Beauchamp Estates and Dataloft, the average price paid per square foot for London properties over the £10m mark has increased by a chunky 27% since 2011, rising from £2,400 per square foot…

Marketed with an "absurdly" low guide price of £250k, it's been billed as "the bargain basement mansion", but whoever buys the Grade I-listed Halswell House in Somerset at auction next week will need…

Dan Cruickshank, the architecture/history guy off of the TV, has come out swinging against "massive new developments" in London's East End.