Location: United Kingdom

Savills' latest Residential Property Focus (for Q3 2013) asks whether the mainstream market is in a full-on recovery, or whether its just a temporary reprieve - as happened in 2010.

What does the "P" in planning really stand for? Petty, Potty and Pointless, says our resident Doer Upper Alan Page... I'm all for Planning, but not necessarily for planning.

Knightsbridge and Mayfair are the most expensive parts of London to rent a two-bed flat (avg.

The National Grid is asking around for thoughts on how/where to spend £500m on hiding pylons and powerlines.

The big sign-ups to new-property-portal-in-town Agents' Mutual keep on coming: the Thamesview Group - which operates the likes of Chard, Friend & Falcke, Dexters, Square Mile and Waterview estate agents…

Kensington-based agency Rickman Properties has hired Simon Powley as Assistant Residential Sales Manager. Powley joins the firm after an impressive 18-year stint at mews specialists Lurot Brand.

A scheme to turn the former DFID offices at 1 Palace Street SW1 into 78 luxury flats has been approved by Westminster council.

Land Securities has had its 89-unit office-to-resi scheme at 70-88 Oxford Street W1 approved by planners.

We all know waterfront positions can command serious premiums, but they can also land unwary buyers and developers in some pretty deep water.

Chesterton Humberts has set up shop in chichi W11, the firm's sixth offering in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea.

News of another important branch opening now, with Savills confirming a permanent foray into well-heeled Marylebone.

Casting a beady eye over prime property prices across the world's 28 key cities, Knight Frank's Prime Global House Price Index is a feat in itself; mainly, how on earth do they get it onto just two pages?