Location: United Kingdom

The real world's not like the headlines so don't believe the hype, says our resident doer upper Alan Page, as serendipity gets the better of sales spiele in SW3.

Next year's looking alright for the prime property market, thinks Strutt & Parker, but then it all goes a bit sorry. This year's +6% price performance in PCL will be followed by a 3.

...UPDATE (22nd May 2014): Looks like the asking price is going to be in the £11-11.5m range...

Londonewcastle's Robert Soning on finding the right space and the importance of his firm's latest acquisition...

Camden, Islington, Lambeth and Richmond councils are limbering up for a High Court challenge to permitted development rights that allow the conversion of office space to residential use.

Chairman of Countrywide plc, the UK's biggest property services group, has announced he'll be stepping down with immediate effect.

The Land Registry is trialling a mapping interface for its data with Landmark Information Group.

Air-punching from English Heritage and UNESCO; not so much from London & Regional Properties and Chelsfield.

Resi development land values across the UK (excluding London) recorded another three months of "convincing" growth between July and September, according to Knight Frank's latest findings.

Fine & Country has opened its seventh office in Surrey, on St Judes Road, Englefield Green. Paul Garrod is running the show, which will specialise in marketing £800k+ homes.

Over a third of tenants actively looking to buy a home are doing so because they are anxious to pre-empt further price rises, says Cluttons in its latest tome.

Within the context of prime and super-prime residential development, affordable housing is a complex matter and one that most developers will need to address at some point or another.