The Market
‘Demand in the super-prime rental market is driving a new dedicated advisor’
Buying agents are de rigeur at the top-end of the sales market, but increasing numbers of HNW tenants are retaining specialists to find their next home and streamline the moving process, says DDRE Global's Alex…
Monday Market Review: Key figures & findings from the last seven days
Catch up on all the latest movements and commentary in less than five minutes, featuring data and analysis from Chestertons, RICS, Rightmove, CBRE, Savills & more...
Retirees drive landlord sales as BtL demographics shift ‘irrespective of the tax or regulatory changes’
Hamptons estimates that around 140,000 landlords retired in 2022, accounting for nearly three-quarters (73%) of all landlord sales.
Estate agency heralds ‘good news for London renters’ as lettings supply improves
Chestertons has nearly a third more rental stock on its books now than at this time last year - but tenant demand is still running hot.
New short-let rules floated, requiring planning permission for holiday rentals
The government is pressing on with plans to regulate the holiday rental market, suggesting a new planning use class for short-term rentals, and a register of to keep track of them.
Property market ‘remains downbeat overall’ – RICS
Surveyors expect the weak sales market to continue for 'a while longer', before more stability returns.
Agreed sales tally recovers to pre-pandemic levels
Rightmove's latest data points to a return to some kind of normalcy for the property market...
Farmland values hit record high as investors pile in
Private and institutional investors bought a third of all the farms sold in 2022 – the highest level for at least a decade - and there's no sign of demand weakening.
‘The second half of 2023 is likely to be stronger than the first’ – Hamptons
Property market metrics are moving back towards 2019 levels, says up-market estate agency, as the latest data shows one in ten £1mn+ homes finds a buyer within a week of hitting the market.
10 Years of ATED: On the past, present & future of the Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings
Law firm Burges Salmon looks back at how the Annual Tax on Enveloped Dwellings (ATED) has evolved and affected the property market since being introduced in 2013, and considers what may lie ahead for the…
Westminster launches dirty money charter
Companies House is being 'played like a fiddle', says council as it vows to clean up 'haven for oligarch investors'.