Location: United Kingdom

700 property types turned up to London's Lancaster Hotel last week for the annual Estate Agency Awards, in association with The Sunday Times and The Times, and sponsored by Zoopla.

The Turner Prize has pulled off another controversial year, handing 2015's coveted contemporary art cheque/award to architecture/design collective Assemble.

Mayfair is not far off regaining its crown as the most expensive neighbourhood in the capital, according to some detailed new research into PCL price movements during 2015.

A developer has been ordered to pay £4k in fines and costs for cracking on with a basement extension after being served up with a stop notice.

London Square has reported shifting over 90% of the units at its new scheme in Putney, south west London.

"The face of the Private Rented Sector is changing rapidly," says Knight Frank, as large-scale investors go big on the now-established asset class.

Developer Mount Anvil has been awarded the highest Health and Safety audit score ever granted by the British Safety Council - 99.93% and a Five Star rating.

Peer-to-peer lending platform LendInvest has recruited RBS real estate veteran Steve Larkin to manage its new Development Finance offering.

James Caan-backed two-and-a-half-year-old West London estate agency Ivy Gate has signed an agreement to open up shop(s) in the United States.

The boss of giant housebuilder Berkeley Group has warned of "unintended consequences" resulting from "continued changes" to property taxation in the UK.

It's being reported that a significant chunk of Berwick Street in Soho is to be sold off-market. Peter Beckwith's investment juggernaut PMB Holdings has, CoStar.co.

An enormous 16th century pile on the edge of Dartmoor - considered to be one of the south west's finest specimens - has been sold for a reported £2m.