Lots of potential: Three auction finds from the final sales of 2019

Lodha UK is preparing to move its Lincoln Square sales team over to Holland Park Gate in Kensington, as 95% of units at its luxury mid-town scheme have now found buyers.

Once home to newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst and honeymoon destination for JFK, LA's Beverly House has sold at a bankruptcy auction for a reported $63.1 million.

A large 1950s building on Exeter High Street has come up for sale at £8 million. It's “well suited to residential conversion”, says Allsop, or could be turned into student flats or a city centre hotel.