Sales
Manhattan mansion listed for record $80m
One of the last remaining private mansions on Fifth Avenue is up for grabs for an eye-watering $80m. If it goes for anything over $53m, it'll become the priciest townhouse ever sold in NYC.
Property Price Wars: Prime London buyers haggling average £178k off asking
While the market remains subdued, both as a result of extensive price rises over 2014 and it being an election year, realistic pricing of properties is crucial, as these findings by Lonres clearly demonstrate...
‘Pent up demand’ building in PCL as election nears – Knight Frank
Prime central London's property market - especially the £2m+ segment - has been in lockdown for the last month, says Knight Frank, as annual price growth hits a five year low and both vendors and househunters…
Oxford and Cambridge outperform as Londoners capitalise on house price gap
Uncertainty may be ruling the roost in London’s housing market, but it's a different story in other parts of the country, notes top buying agency Garrington.
Oxfordshire manor house with ‘the finest view in England’ hits the market
Lording it over what's been described as the best vista in the country, this Grade II listed Georgian manor house has just become available in a very stately corner of Oxfordshire.
Duty Bound: On the aftermath of Osborne’s SDLT reforms
Historically, SDLT rate changes have corrected themselves in the market through a natural process of adjustment;
In Pictures: Diddy’s surprisingly low key New Jersey pad
Hip hop mogul Sean "P Diddy" Combs has re-listed this frankly rather elegant affair in New Jersey.
Now on for a tad over £5.
PCL market to present good buying opportunities in post-election window
Buying agency Huntly Hooper has issued some words of advice for investors looking to spot a bargain in prime London over the coming weeks.
£5m+ transactions in prime London have tumbled by 49% in the last year
The Lonres Residential Review, Spring 2015: The sales market.
As befits an election year, demand levels have dropped and, as a result, so have transactions and values.
Lonres Residential Review: The national picture in Q1
Growth in the UK economy in 2014 stands at 2.8%, the highest rate recorded since 2006.
Foxtons blames sales dip on election slowdown
Foxtons has reported raking in total revenues of £33.1m in Q1, down 3.1% on the same period last year.
The Lonres Spring Review: Carrington on Q1
Lonres Chairman William Carrington looks back on a period of declining transaction levels and deflating prices...