The Market
‘2022 will be remembered as a boom year for residential landlords’ – LCP
Newly-agreed rental prices in prime London jumped 19% in 2022, says a specialist buy-to-let buying agency, while renewal prices surged 7.4% in Q4.
Buying agency flags the property market’s top ten ‘recession-proof strongholds’
Prime London postcodes and top-tier university cities 'are the most likely to escape relatively unscathed' from the property market downturn, says Garrington.
Why househunting in London is getting harder
Buying agency flags surge in off-market selling and an increasingly fragmented industry as key challenges for affluent purchasers
Ranked: Where homes sell for 20% more than asking, on average
New research has identified which postcodes tend to have the most wayward property asking prices - with several Prime Central London enclaves featuring.
‘Change on the way’ in the Prime London lettings market
Stock levels are picking up and tenants are starting to shop around, reports Knight Frank
‘Another clear sign that it will be a challenging year for the housing market’: Industry reactions to the latest BoE mortgage data
Prime property insiders offer their take on new Bank of England data, highlighting a steep drop-off in mortgage lending at the end of last year - featuring Savills, Knight Frank, SPF Private Clients and…
Prime country houses prices tipped to remain 20-25% above pre-pandemic levels
'Much of the froth has now come out of the market and buyers are generally more measured in their approach, especially with regard to values,' says buying agency Heaton & Partners.
National market snapshot: Key indicators
What do 2022's vital stats tell us about the future direction of the market?
Prime London sales market defies gloomy predictions with strong start to the year
'A double-digit price fall does not exactly feel imminent', says Knight Frank, after recording some encouragingly high activity levels given the circumstances...
‘Slow burn’ start for mainstream market in 2023, as buyers hold back – Zoopla
Property portal expects a ‘cautious mood’ to continue in the housing market until Easter.
Unrealistic price expectations tops list of estate agents’ concerns for vendors in 2023
Propertymark has flagged the big threats and opportunities facing estate agents and the property market in the year ahead...
Saul Empson: What the Dickens is going on in the prime property market?
If we all stopped in our tracks every time the papers rang a bell to call the onset of the next property crash, none of us would have bought homes since 1998, says buying agent Saul Empson...