The Market
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 LonRes, ONS, Foxtons, JLL, Arcadis, OnTheMarket & more...
‘Lower-value markets are holding up better than expected’
The chaos that followed the mini-Budget affected UK property markets at all price points, says Knight Frank's Tom Bill - and all sectors now seem to be recovering.
PCL’s ‘uber-tenants’ budgeting up to £100k per week
Super-rich renters are setting new records in the capital's top neighbourhoods, reports boutique agency.
Sellers behaving badly: Buying agency warns of ‘an increasing trend towards vendors changing the goalposts at the last moment’
Bill Spreckley of Stacks Property Search has some sage advice for house-hunters dealing with tricky vendors.
London rents fall as supply improves
London's average weekly rent fell 4% last month, says Foxtons. But rental prices are still 14% higher than at this time last year.
Ranked: Britain’s overseas buyer hotspots
The number of foreign buyers entering the property market across England and Wales increased by 3.2% over the last year - with some areas seeing surges of up to 18.8%.
House prices & transaction volumes continue to fall – official data
Industry Reactions: Property insiders weigh-in on the latest UK HPI, which tells of another fall for property prices in February.
London’s runaway top-end market falters
But a surge in under-offers could see a bounce-back in Q2.
Top US broker warns UK property market is ‘sailing into the eye of the storm’
Ryan Serhant thinks values could tank by 20% as the market adjusts to higher mortgage rates - but industry folk in the UK vehemently disagree...
Currency Matters: Timing is everything, but the message is still the same
The only real difference between financial markets and real estate is liquidity, explains David Huggett.
May & June will be defining months in the 2023 market
Buying agents Richard & Sophie Rogerson on navigating a new normal in Prime London...
PCL sales tumble by a fifth – but ‘taking a longer-term view shows a different picture’
JLL's Prime Central London index for Q1 2023 tells of a 4.3% annual decline in achieved sold prices, and a 5.5% increase in achieved rents.