Oil money is once again flowing through the arteries of Central London. This week it was revealed that a Middle Eastern buyer had bought a £28 million flat at One Hyde Park in Knightsbridge, setting a new global record for this year of £6,000 per sq ft.

A milkman has criticised Google’s Street View website, claiming burglars targeted his garage three times after spotting its door open online.

The major UK lenders expect house prices to be broadly flat over the coming year and for mortgage lending to increase moderately, shows the Bank of England’s Trends In Lending report.

According to a survey from ING direct bank, there are ten key indicators of an area “on the up” with the potential for rising house prices.

PricedOut, the national affordable housing campaign, today responded to government proposals to further increase the tax breaks available to Buy-to-Let investors.

Surveyors are continuing to see a rise in the number of properties coming to the market, pushing the level of seller activity to its highest since May 2007.

When my supposed opponent announced that the best we could hope for for the rest of the year was that house prices would stay stable before they fell again, I thought I must have misheard.

The importance the Labour Government has attached to housing can be measured by the fact that there have been nine different housing ministers in the 13 years since the party came to power.

The latest house price index from Acadametrics, based on actual transaction prices and using Land Registry data, shows the average house price in March stands at £227,788.

The Knight Frank/Citi Private Bank survey reveals which city has knocked London off the top of the most influential cities.