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Four of the country’s most informed property pundits took turns to assess and analyse the main threats and opportunities facing the UK's residential real estate market at the Economics Research Council’s…

Prime central London property prices are becoming "more sober" as annual growth has now slowed to just +2% - down from +8.

Edinburgh's market is "still absorbing" the move to LBTT, notes Knight Frank, as prime property prices in the Scottish city nudged up by 0.4% in Q2. Annual growth has now slowed to +3.4% from +5.

Demand for property in prime central London has fallen by 3% since May, claims online estate agency eMoov, with over 60% of boroughs seeing drops of up to 37%.

CBRE Global Investors is apparently selling off an impressive chunk of Soho with full plans for residential development, with an asking price of £35m.

The entire contents of the 45-bedroom 2-8a Rutland Gate - which has been on the market since 2012 with a rumoured asking prices of £300m - are to be auctioned off online in "an unprecedented opportunity."

"Investors in prime central London have reason to be positive this year," says London Central Portfolio, bucking today's trend for gloom-mongery.

There were 203 £2m+ residential property sales lodged with the Land Registry in the first three months of this year, down quite dramatically from the 494 that went through in the previous quarter.

The average property price in England and Wales didn't move in May, leaving the annual change at +4.6%, according to the latest from the Land Registry.

Halifax's annual look at the net worth of a square metre of real estate across the UK has shown RBKC to be tickling £12k per m2.

Where does the law stand on drones infringing onto private property? Is it trespass? What if you can't identify the owner? Can you take the law into your own hands? 

Penthouse, The Limes, Mortlake £2.2m  This glorious riverside affair will no doubt be familiar to eagle-eyed property peeps like yourselves.