Location: United Kingdom

Great Portland Estates has reported shifting over £223m worth of units at its Rathbone Square scheme in W1.

Estate agency John D Wood & Co. has gone global, launching an International Department to help UK-based residents buy international properties.

A new rural eco house, designed by architects Farrells for developer Jarvis Homes, has been awarded planning consent in Kent;

A firm has been explaining how an ancient newspaper found under the floorboards of a gut job on Sloane Square inspired a meticulous Art Nouveau and Art Deco restoration.

Heaton & Partners, the top-end consultancy set up two years ago by former Property Vision man Ed Heaton, has poached a key member of Strutt & Parker's buying team.

Tom Grogan and Kouros Golestaneh's resi design and development outfit LUTTI - which scored backing to the tune of £50m from Halkin Investments last year - has made a chunky acquisition on Great Portland…

Marsh & Parsons has expanded its Residential Development & Investment department by recruiting Matt Bird as its new Head of Affordable Housing.

Triangle has strengthened its London-based team by hiring a new Head of Asset Management, just a few weeks after snapping up the New Oxford Street Estate for £15.75m. The New Oxford Street Estate

So many features that we normally associate with the inside of a property are now finding their way outside.

Foreign buyers have seen the cost of buying a property in the UK rocket over the last week, after a Tory election win sent the value of the pound skywards.

Rightmove recorded an unseasonal but not unpredictable fall in asking prices before the election.

It sounds like a chunky deal may have just gone through on Mayfair's Mount Street.