Lettings

Consultation to start sometime in March or April

"We don't want to be too optimistic just yet... but nothing could be as bad as 2016"

Deal numbers falter and surveyors' exceptions pare back

Instructions and appraisals soar while average rents dip

Property demand and values in the capital are likely to remain resilient this year, says Quintessentially Estates

Tunstall Property reviews the year that was and makes some predictions for 2017

No growth for average prime global rents in the year to September

The Council of Mortgage Lenders is "more pessimistic about the future than a year ago"

Buy-to-let transactions have fallen by 64% in the last 12 months

"Expect the unexpected" says Savills, but "life in the property world goes on" despite 2016's series of seismic shocks

Supply of available property for sale continues to stagnate across the country

'Excess supply will be slowly absorbed and this could possibly herald the low point in the market, with only an upward direction in values as the next predictable change'