Keira Knightley buys East London property

Things are a bit celeb-tastic on AboutProperty today, what with our Kirstie Allsopp/One Hyde Park story and now this: Keira Knightley has joined the pack of celebs flocking to buy property in East London. Who'da thought!

Kirstie Allsopp slams One Hyde Park

Not that AboutProperty isn't an extremely busy website with far more important things to do than cruise Twitter all day, but we happened to notice a characteristically strong-worded tweet from a certain Ms Kirstie Allsopp the other day... read her wise words here: Kirstie Allsopp on One Hyde Park.

We are in love with this gorgeous ski chalet

Just in - the AboutProperty overseas pick of the week. We are swooning over this Chamonix chalet...

RICS urges government to spend more on property

The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors has urged the government to allocate more of its budget to building houses. Hear hear!

Freehold v Leasehold - what's the difference and which one's better?

Anthony has just written a brilliant feature explaining what 'freehold' and 'leasehold' mean when it comes to flat ownership. Check it out here: Freehold and Leasehold apartment ownership explained.

Ideal Home Show - win tickets or buy 'em cheap

We are running a competition to win a pair of tickets to the Ideal Home Show - but if you'd rather know your tickets were sorted, that's not a problem - just book using our exclusive discount code and you can get two Ideal Home Show tickets for the price of one. Easy!

Mortgage lending "will turn around in 2011" - hoorah!

A major report released by Chesterton Humberts and the CEBR says that 2011 will see an increase in the number of mortgages being approved in the UK. However, it also urged caution - largely based on the pesky interest rate rise hotly tipped to be coming soon. Check out the full mortgage news story here.