Location: United Kingdom

Super-prime developer Finchatton has promoted Jiin Kim-Inoue to the role of Design Director, responsible for "leading and implementing the firm's global design strategy". Jiin Kim-Inoue

Capital & Counties has continued its "tactical acquisition strategy" in Covent Garden with the bagging of yet another key site.

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).

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.

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 .

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

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

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

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

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

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

A 48-bedroom Jacobean mansion, described by Simon Thurley as "by far the most important country house to have been threatened with major loss through decay since the 1950s", has been bought by a French…