Location: United Kingdom

Strutt & Parker's voice joins a gathering chorus confirming a spring sales flurry for top-end country houses.

Recently-established agency Draper London has been instructed to sell a tech maven's north London work-in-progress, complete with 'Batcave' style basement.

Trackside hospitality & resi brand brings in Nest Seekers as official international sales and marketing partner.

Some new faces are in charge of housing & planning policy in the Golden Postcodes.

Talk of council tax surcharges and capital gains tax reforms highlights how Labour politicians are leaning left as leadership speculation intensifies.

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From access rights to estate management schemes, the legal intricacies of the capital's private garden squares can catch out purchasers - and sometimes even their advisers - warns Robert Barham.

Boodle Hatfield's 'strategic focus on private capital' seems to be paying off.

The Transient Garden was created by RHS first-timer Rebecca Lloyd Jones, with a focus on flexible outdoor space for city dwellers.

Another call for a major overhaul of the property tax landscape.

The right garden can transform both pricing power and purchaser psychology, according to veteran north London agent Trevor Abrahmsohn.

IN PICTURES: Inside one of the most significant country listings of 2026 so far, on the open market for the first time in a century.