Location: South West

One of London's oldest and largest charitable housing providers, Peabody, has heralded its move into the private sales market, appointing Annette Hurst as Sales and Marketing Director to head up its…

The total value of the UK's housing stock rose by £186bn in 2013 to hit £5.2tr, according to some (big) number crunching by Savills, and by £1.6tr over the last decade from £3.6tr in 2003.

Bristol will see a sea-change over the next two years as its city-centre population balloons, according to Jones Lang LaSalle.

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…