Buy-to-let rush drives an ‘unusually buoyant’ market – RICS

With HSBC dropping bombshell plans to cut 8,000 jobs in the UK and mulling over whether to even keep its global HQ in London, these are worrying times for City workers. W

"Buyers are ready" says Douglas & Gordon as the estate agency reports a 50% year-on-year jump in the number of new applicants, but vendors are playing it very cool, with 33% fewer new instructions in June…

"Many local markets actually have a stronger correlation with a region other than the one in which they are physically located," says Savills' Neal Hudson, as he re-draws the UK property market map