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London unsurprisingly leads the pack, closely followed by the South East. But strip out those hotspots and there's a definite divide in the country. In the north (huge generalisation here) growth is around a half that further south.

Click on the interactive map below to see the forecasts in detail.

This is what a £12.5m penthouse, right by Harrods in the heart of Knightsbridge looks like. It's nice innit?

This week EG's East of England Focus lifts the lid on the £1bn North West Cambridge development, writes Mark Simmons.

While some local agents are already aware that the proposed 400,000 sq ft of commercial space will not be available for commercial users, as occupation will be limited to university partners only, they are hoping that there will be opportunities for third parties to manage the planned key worker (1,500 homes) and student (2,000 units) accommodation. Sorry folks - landowner Cambridge university is keeping a firm grip on its properties and expects to manage them itself.

However, there is one thing that the 800-year old institution is letting go of - the 4% of the site that is earmarked for revenue-generating private housing. Even here though, the university isn't handing over more than it has to. Only house plots and primary road links will be released, with the university retaining ultimate ownership of other roads, open spaces and communal areas.

This is sensible as it allows the university to maintain the environment to its desired standard. But it also means residents will face an additional service charge to cover the costs. In the current housing-starved Cambridge area that's unlikely to be an issue. More of a concern though, say local commercial agents, is the additional traffic that the North West development will generate. City councilors raised the issue when the outline planning application was discussed and ultimately approved last summer, and were reassured by planners that increased traffic volumes could be managed. We'll find out whether they were right soon enough: residents should move in from autumn 2015.

Read about plans for North West Cambridge in this Saturday's magazine, on the enhanced iPad edition or tomorrow in our digital edition.

The development was still very much a building site yesterday but we had a glimpse inside the penthouse (sold to a Cambridge man despite rumours that the whole thing had been sold in Hong Kong before a brick was laid) and more importantly what sort of view £1.2m buys you. It's nice.

Great view of the Hill Residential development site. It's taken from the top of the student accommodation on Brookgate's CB1 site in Cambridge, and looks like its going up at the rate of knots.

At the recent launch of the London Hilton Wembley I caught up with James Saunders, chief operating officer of Quintain to talk about the 20 year regeneration project around the stadium and arena.

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The title of Savills residential report today says it all "Mapping the great divide".

Savills has stuck its marker in the sand today and forecast where it thinks regional house prices will be by 2015. Sadly, all the minus numbers are in the north and the pluses are all in the south.

But growth, even in the south east, is some way below what it was at the peak. In Cambridgeshire transaction levels are 77% what they were at the peak. Barnsley meanwhile is the worst performer.  It says that availability of finance and how much affordability of mortgages is dented by interest rate rises will continue to limit any house price growth.

UPDATE: Savills have just told us about an error on the graphic below. For Burnley there should be no '+' next to the figure of transaction levels compared to the pre-crunch peak  (ie: transactions in Burnley are actually down 72%). 

Click on the image below to view a larger version of the map.