The Market
Treasury eyes £1.5mn mansion tax threshold as Budget rumours gather pace
Updated: Reports suggest Treasury is considering widening the HVCTS net, potentially hitting nearly 300,000 homes.
£11.8bn development wave to reshape West Kensington’s market
New research makes the case for a West Ken renaissance, as a trio of major development projects look set to redraw the local map - and hike property values.
Asking prices stage Autumn bounce, but London sellers face tough market
The average price tag on a newly-listed home has risen for the first time since May, but Rightmove warns that sellers are competing for buyers in the most crowded market for 12 years.
Monday Market Review: Key figures & findings from the last seven days
Your essential five-minute briefing, featuring data, forecasts and analysis from LonRes, Beauchamp Estates, Rightmove, Karis Capital, Savills, Knight Frank, ONS, Benham & Reeves & more...
Knight Frank research boss: UK housing outlook hinges on Middle East tensions
Markets are pricing in multiple rate hikes, but where borrowing costs go next relies heavily on a single unpredictable geopolitical risk, explains Tom Bill.
London super-prime sales haul jumps 72% despite global slowdown
Knight Frank tracked a 'flurry of remarkable sales' in London during Q2, but US$10mn+ transaction volumes dipped slightly.
Property Industry Reactions: Interest rates held at 3.75% for sixth time
But the Bank of England has warned rising inflation means a rate hike is getting more likely.
Overseas companies hold nearly 15,000 property titles in Westminster & RBKC
Land Reg data suggests Prime Central London accounts for more than a third of the capital’s overseas-company-owned property titles.
Ranked: Britain’s fastest & slowest places to get a house sale to exchange in 2026
London buyers face a much longer wait than movers in other regions.
Prime London rents march on as lettings activity slides
Latest LonRes numbers show rental values up 3.8% year-on-year as lets agreed fall by more than a quarter.
‘There are quiet Augusts and then there are quiet Augusts’: Prime London sales hit 18-year low
Latest LonRes numbers point to a particularly slow summer for prime London - but there are signs of life at the top end.
The price of perfection: ‘Immaculate’ PCL rentals command 31% premium
New analysis digs into the landlords, tenants and changing economics of the prime lettings market.