Lettings
Letting fees consultation earmarked for this Spring
Consultation to start sometime in March or April
Things start moving again in London’s ‘besieged’ rental market
"We don't want to be too optimistic just yet... but nothing could be as bad as 2016"
Market ‘stutters’ as sales activity dips – RICS
Deal numbers falter and surveyors' exceptions pare back
Prime rental stock surges in the Home Counties
Instructions and appraisals soar while average rents dip
Central London ‘overspill’ to drive increased demand in fringe areas
Property demand and values in the capital are likely to remain resilient this year, says Quintessentially Estates
Super-Prime Lettings Review 2016
Tunstall Property reviews the year that was and makes some predictions for 2017
Prime global rents flatline
No growth for average prime global rents in the year to September
2015 was the peak for buy-to-let – CML
The Council of Mortgage Lenders is "more pessimistic about the future than a year ago"
Government’s ‘War on Landlords’ sees buy-to-let sales collapse
Buy-to-let transactions have fallen by 64% in the last 12 months
Lucian Cook’s six key themes for the resi property sector in 2017 and beyond
"Expect the unexpected" says Savills, but "life in the property world goes on" despite 2016's series of seismic shocks
London property’s ‘downward momentum looks to have eased significantly’ – RICS
Supply of available property for sale continues to stagnate across the country
They don’t ring a bell at the bottom of the cycle, but if they did, the sound would be deafening
'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'