Sales

Supply builds as few sales agreed over the Easter holidays.

£5mn-plus deals were flowing in the first quarter of 2025, but Savills warns that the impact of global volatility is likely to play out more significantly in the coming months.

Average prices in PCL fell 1.6% in the year to April amid ongoing uncertainty around tax changes, reports Knight Frank's head of UK resi research.

Asia-Pacific & the Middle East continue to lead the recovery, reports Knight Frank, but it's a mixed picture across Europe's key luxury markets.

Official numbers suggest a 104% year-on-year spike in residential sales in the run-up to the end of the Stamp Duty 'holiday'.

A lumpy sales market in the capital as deal numbers dwindle following a late-March surge.

Fresh property portal data indicate house price growth is losing momentum, but buying & selling activity remains higher than last year.

'Most of the demand we’re seeing now is less about "going somewhere"...it’s more about clients wanting to leave something behind,' writes Property Vision's senior partner.

The UK 'was seen as a safe investment, particularly amongst those buying high value properties,' conclude researchers after quizzing nearly 300 non-UK resident buyers five years ago.

The government has sent the wrong message by scrapping non-dom status, but any negativity has been dwarfed by the wider commotion on global financial markets this month, explains the agency's Tom Bill.

The latest Savills index suggests top-end home values outside London have dipped by -1.1% in the last year.

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