Location: United Kingdom

At 16,000 square foot, it's being billed as "the largest and most opulent basement extension ever seen in Central London", but will it get through planning? Holland Park, London

The availability of £1m+ mortgages is on the up as high street lenders get back on the big spenders' scene, according to broker Springtide Capital.

The total value of the UK's housing stock rose by £186bn in 2013 to hit £5.2tr, according to some (big) number crunching by Savills, and by £1.6tr over the last decade from £3.6tr in 2003.

We all know it's been a shrewd investment in recent years, but just how easy - or sensible - is it to buy up and develop farmland?

Fair Edinburgh has seen a return to "normal, healthy transaction levels", according to the Knight Frank team after they recorded a whopping increase in Q4 deals.

Robert Bailey's buying agency has recruited Will Hollest to give "a developer's eye" to the outfit.

British Land has been updating the world on its Q3 2013/14 activity, and things look to be going well for the giant developer. The Clarges Estate It's currently progressing £1.

There'll probably be fewer foreign buyers, dull design schemes and 60s mansards this year, says James Bailey...

An independent inquiry, commissioned by the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, has suggested that Home Reports - which sound rather similar to the much-maligned Home Information Packs that were ditched…

Countrywide's latest YouGov sentiment survey comes to a very similar conclusion to Knight Frank's version released last week: we're all pretty positive about house prices.

Hamptons International's expansion plans have taken another step forward today, with the acquisition of a top North London estate agency.

Alchemi has bagged the Development Manager gig for the conversion of The Umi Hotel on Leinster Square in Bayswater into 15-20 luxury resi units.