Sales
Winkworth set to beat profit forecasts
The market has been buoyant this year, reports the franchise operator, but trading conditions are expected to return to a 'more normal pattern' in the months ahead
Most home-buyers ‘don’t factor in energy efficiency in their purchase’ – yet
Less than a quarter of surveyors think that a property’s energy efficiency rating has any impact at all on a its selling price, according to a new survey by the RICS.
Stock shortage thwarts home-buying activity
Surveyors reported a small dip in sales volumes despite rising buyer enquiries in October, as house-hunters struggled to find suitable homes to buy.
Heatmapped: ‘The general picture is one of a slowing market’
The annual rate of inflation across England & Wales has slipped to 4.1%, reports Acadata, but ‘there will be no price collapse as some had previously suggested’
Winkworth boss: ‘We may have passed peak country’
There are people returning to Notting Hill because they thought rural life would be like Soho Farmhouse, says Dominic Agace.
Ranked: Britain’s hottest buyers’ & sellers’ property markets
Two-thirds of homes listed for sale on Rightmove are already marked as Sold Subject to Contract, up from around half last Autumn.
Savills forecasts: Prime property markets to outperform over five years; PCL prices tipped for 8% growth in 2022
"Property in the capital’s most prestigious postcodes is overdue a recovery," says Savills, as it reveals its prime and mainstream market forecasts for the next five years.
PCL property prices set to rise 5-10% in 2022, predicts Strutt & Parker
National estate agency Strutts is forecasting price growth of between 20% and 35% by 2025 across the UK, and somewhere between 15% and 35% over five years in Prime Central London.
‘The labour of the last ten years is about to bear fruit’: On the remarkable reinvention of Belgravia
After decades of sporadic development, all four corners of the famous PCL district are being transformed as a raft of ‘landmark’ projects finally take shape.
High-end sales surge boosts stamp duty receipts
Latest quarterly stats from HMRC signal 'significant' activity at the top-end - and reveal the impact of the recently-introduced overseas buyer surcharge...
Price rises are an ‘unmistakable sign of recovery’ for prime London’s property market
“We are not on the verge of the sort of dramatic double-digit bounce-back in prices,” says Tom Bill, head of UK residential research at Knight Frank.
A seller’s market snapshot: fail to prepare, prepare to fail
Lawyer Annabel Dean shares some practical tips for those looking to compete in this most challenging of markets…