Location: United Kingdom

House prices across the UK went by an average of 10% in the year to November 2014, says the ONS, down a touch from October's +10.4% after just a 0.2% increase between October and November.

City fund managers reckon the value of Royal Mail's portfolio of redundant sorting offices and sites has doubled in under two years. Mount Pleasant sorting office

Council planning teams across the UK are being tooled up with a £1m war chest to stop unruly developers and homeowners in their tracks. Pickles on the job

Chestertons has amped up its Middle Eastern presence with a joint venture with Saudi-based MEDAD Valuation International (part of the Najeeb Abdullatif Alissa Holding Company).

Home Counties estate agent Waterfords has moved into a new "flagship office" in Fleet after out-growing its old space.

Kensington & Chelsea council is "reminding" owners of the borough's listed buildings about their responsibilities, sending out a mailshot to all listed homes and launching a new web page .

Make, the architecture practice behind projects including St James's Market and Rathbone Square, has appointed its first female board member.

Units at Principal Tower, London's first resi tower to be designed inside and out by Foster + Partners, have been selling like locally-sourced artisan hotcakes.

A British housebuilder has been signed up to deliver £300m worth of luxury resi across the Middle East, including a take on Kensington's super-prime Phillimores development.

Alix Lawson of interior architecture and design studio Lawson Robb reveals what makes a top drawer dressing room.

Helical Bar has secured a new £165m revolving credit facility for its Barts Square scheme in the City of London. The moneys, provided by HSBC at an all-inclusive 3.

Another week, another new acquisition by Carter Jonas, this time in the shape of two Cambridge-based property firms.