Location: United Kingdom

The former salon, workshop and home of Royal Milliner Simone Mirman has just come up for sale, sporting a £14.5m price tag. Few addresses in London can claim finer fashion creds.

Mayfair-based buying agency Black Brick has hired a new business consultant to develop its network across Asia. Grace Ding

Run out of last-minute present ideas? The RIBA's just launched a new "supporter scheme", allowing non-professional architecture/design types to get involved with the the Institute for the first time.

Abu Dhabi Financial Group has been named as the buyer of the Met Police's HQ, New Scotland Yard in Victoria. The firm nabbed the 1.

Knight Frank's latest analysis of house price growth around the world has recorded Dubai's first quarterly decline in four years, together with a slowdown across much of Asia.

The Council of Mortgage Lenders has called on Moray McDonald, head of personal and business banking products at the Royal Bank of Scotland, to take over as Chairman.

Chelsea-based independent Russell Simpson has been looking up a few stats on the capital's penthouses.

Plans have been submitted to Westminster Council for the conversion of three properties on Cornwall Terrace into one 33,000 square foot uber-pile.

It looks like London's super-rich are opting for to wait and see for the next 12 months, as the very top-end of the rentals market - with six and seven figure annual rents - booms.

The design bar is being raised in private spas and "wellness areas" says Lawson Robb's Alix Lawson, as plunge pools and steam rooms are lifted out of the basement and into the light.

Many awards were dished out at last week's Estate Agency of the Year Awards; here's who won what. Overall Winner Pygott & Crone Best Buying Agency Gold: Black Brick Silver: Garrington

Taking some time off from compiling the Sunday Times Rich List, Dr Richard Beresford's been working out who are the 250 wealthiest individuals in the UK property world.