Down here, it's a bit quiet. But what about up there, where the super-rich pay £10m and up for their London properties? According to our friend Henry Pryor, it's not bad at all, thank you.

"Looking at sales so far this year we can see that there is still a market for properties over £10m with more than twenty six sales in London alone so far in 2008. Last year we counted just thirty eight in the whole year."

I can feel a Top Ten coming on.

1 14/03/2008 £16,800,000 Gainsborough House, Winnington Road, Barnet, N2 0TS

2 8/07/2008 £15,000,000 10, Chester Square, City Of Westminster, SW1W 9HH

3 25/04/2008 £13,500,000 34, Hans Place, Kensington And Chelsea, SW1X 0JZ

4 30/05/2008 £12,500,000 Walpole House, Chiswick Mall, Hounslow, W4 2PS

5 04/04/2008 £12,250,000 6, Chester Square, City Of Westminster, SW1W 9HH

6 27/05/2008 £11,990,000 14, Upper Phillimore Gardens, Kensington And Chelsea, W8 7HA

7 06/03/2008 £11,500,000 18, South End, Kensington And Chelsea, W8 5BU

8 03/06/2008 £11,500,000 199, 801 Apartment, Knightsbridge, City Of Westminster, SW7 1RH

9 24/06/2008 £10,324,725 21, Flat 2, Chesham Place, Kensington And Chelsea, SW1X 8HG

10 03/06/2008 £10,000,000 26, Phillimore Gardens, Kensington And Chelsea, W8 7QE

More from Mr Pryor:

"In March, Gainsborough House in Barnet sold for £16.8m and in May Thames-side Walpole House in leafy Chiswick for £12.5m. In both cases, agents say they would expect these mega homes to sell for similar sums if they went on the market today. To be honest, people with this kind of money tend to be rich because they understand the markets not despite them. As such, I'm not sure that this would be the case and I see no reason why these homes would not have lost up to 15% of their value as have many others in west London since the peak of the market 12 months ago."

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