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Kensington-based Banda Property has strengthened its buying team after reporting a surge in demand for off-plan resi. Helical Bar's hotly-tipped Barts Square scheme by Smithfield Market

Tenants are displaying an 'insatiable' demand for three-bedroomed apartments in central London at the moment, says Strutt & Parker.

Super-rich African oligarchs have spent over £600m on luxury homes in London in the last three years, with Nigerian buyers alone accounting for £250m.

Luxury investments - cars, wine, art etc - have outperformed property over the last decade, and by quite the margin.

Despite dropping a touch in Q3, rental values in the Home Counties have increased on an annual basis for the first time since June 2012, says Knight Frank. It's not a big increase: 0.

MD of property buying advisors Quintessentially Estates talks us through some some of the firm's most noteworthy acquisitions

Thackeray Estates says its has brought "Belgravia-quality homes to Waterloo" with its Dover House project by pulling out all the stops with suppliers, including calling in luxury resi's international…

The peeps over at Property Division have had a bash at an ambitious Mansion Tax visualisation, showing the extent to which each London borough would be affected by Labour's proposed new levy.

Penthouse, 432 Park Avenue, New York $76.5m (£47.72m) This is how the USA does super-prime.

Three new bridges across the Thames "can galvanise their north and south banks" says buying agency Garrington as St James's Riverlight development in Nine Elms welcomes its first residents.

Thanks to years of overuse, the term 'luxury' is arguably the emptiest word in the lexicon of prime property. So how do experts at the top end of the market define luxury these days?

It's the end of the rise for prime central London's property prices, says Marsh & Parsons. Q3 saw prices struggle up by just 0.5% as supply levels jumped by 13%.