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There was an unexpected spike in pre-Christmas activity in Mayfair, says local estate agent Wetherell, as the firm bagged just shy of £50m in sales in the traditional holiday wind-down.

These, according to one firm, are the ten key features that take a property into the ultra-prime league (and help it sell "up to 30% faster").

Savills has taken its tally of branches in the capital up to 36 with the launch of a new offering in W9.

Countrywide plc, owner of estate agency brands including Hamptons International, Faron Sutaria and John D Wood & Co, has consolidated its head office personnel into one swanky Oxford Street HQ, as Sky…

While prime central London flatlines, the prime country market has been posting some meaningful growth in average values and transaction numbers.

The Surrey town of Dorking has been ranked as the #1 commuter hotspot to watch in 2016, after a survey of house prices and travel across the south east of England.

Council taking a long hard look at its stance on amalgamations

South west London could be in line for a major HNW selling point if the rumours are true about a top US school going on the hunt for a site in the capital.

Sydney will see the biggest rises in residential property prices of any prime global city this year, says Knight Frank, while Hong Kong, Singapore and Paris are all likely to see price drops.

Proving that 2015 definitely wasn't all doom and gloom, Thomas van Straubenzee and Rory Penn's top-end agency VanHan tucked away a raft of major resi deals over the last 12 months, averaging £16m apiece.

It sounds like vendors are starting to get the message that the market in prime central London has undergone something of a sea change.

Londoners bought 63,000 homes outside the capital last year, a chunky increase on 2014's figure of 38,000.