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JLL has decided to make a play for the burgeoning serviced apartment sector, hiring a top name to lead a dedicated new team.

Demand for £1m+ properties in prime London has "risen from the dead" in advance of April's SDLT changes, says online estate agency eMoov after trawling through listings on Rightmove and Zoopla.

London estate agency Foxtons has reported a 4.1% increase in its group revenue in 2015 to £149.8m, although its operating profits sank by 2.6% to £41m.

London-based design house Morpheus has lifted the lid on the show penthouse at Six Senses Residences Courchevel, the luxury hotel brand's first resi effort anywhere in Europe.

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US luxury real estate broker Coldwell Banker has opened up a new outlet - its third in London - in Notting Hill.

A sprawling mansion on Winchmore Hill's star-studded Broad Walk is going up for auction later this month with a guide price of £5.5m.

Without a significant transfer of powers, the Greater London Authority and all 33 boroughs are only going to be able to deliver about 25,000 new homes a year, the London Housing Commission has concluded.

Britain's real estate sector is relatively upbeat about short-term prospects, say the British Property Federation and Grosvenor, but the longer-term view is decidedly more iffy.

Cadogan has recruited Grosvenor's Mayfair Location Director to be its new Property Director.

Countrywide Residential Development, formally known as Countrywide Land & New Homes, has made a batch of new senior appointment and announced "a new focus".

Succession and inheritance issues, wealth taxes and the global economy are the main issues keeping the world's wealthy awake at night, according to a new poll of top UHNWI advisors.