The Market
Country house buyers hold back in third summer of uncertainty
Exchanges are down 10%, buyer registrations are down 14%, and average prices have fallen by 5% in the last year, reports Knight Frank.
House price optimism gets a reality check
Fewer than a third of consumers now expect prices to rise over the next 12 months, down from more than half last year, according to latest OnTheMarket poll.
Monday Market Review: Key figures & findings from the last seven days
Your essential five-minute briefing, featuring data, forecasts and analysis from LonRes, Hamptons, Lloyds Bank, RICS, Knight Frank, Savills & more...
Landlord sales slow as new rules raise cost of an empty property
Buy-to-let purchases now outpace landlord exits for first time since 2019, reports Hamptons, as 'the balance of risk' has changed.
Pace of rental price growth climbs to 13-month high – Hamptons
Latest Connells Group data suggests the average rent on a newly-let home across the UK has increased by 1.6% in the last year.
des Forges: ‘When the London market turns up, it turns fast’
In Pictures: Top agents and designers gather in Knightsbridge to discuss the capital's prospects & evolving HNW trends.
New-build supply sinks to nine-year low
Rightmove shares a three-point plan to rally housebuilding as it reports the lowest number of new-build developments coming to market since 2017.
Agency completes brace of super-prime Hampstead deals as domestic demand holds firm
Knight Frank says buyers are still prepared to 'leapfrog the market' when best-in-class options come up.
Prime London’s £100k lettings club keeps growing
Almost one in eight lets so far this year have been above the Renters' Rights Act threshold.
Latest RICS data suggests market slowdown is slowing
'June’s survey results offer some cautious encouragement that the worst of the slowdown in market activity may be beginning to pass,' says Head of Market Research & Analysis Tarrant Parsons.
Signs of life in the Prime London sales market, but values are still falling
As we pass the halfway point of the year, the latest LonRes figures reveal what's really going on in the prime postcodes.
‘A hidden crisis’: How uninsurable properties are quietly stalling high-end transactions
While climate-related risk is widely discussed, the immediate impact on the luxury homes market is not, writes George Seatter - and insurance placement is emerging as one of the biggest deal blockers around.