A ‘surge of buy-to-let investors’ is pushing prices up – RICS

New asking prices peaked again in July, reaching a record high for the second month in a row. But a monthly increase of 0.

The number of new homes being approved by the capital's planners accelerated by 73% in the first three months of the year, with 11,870 new residential units across 1,553 separate sites entering the pipeline…

"The unexpected political certainty has helped to fuel a post-election price surge," says Rightmove, as average asking prices on the portal have jumped by nearly 3% in a month.