The Market
Record number of buy-to-let companies set up in 2021
Hamptons estimates that around half of all new landlord purchases last year used a company to hold their buy-to-let property.
Rightmove reports busiest ever start to the new year
"Early-bird sellers who got themselves ready to come to market are now benefitting from the busiest start to the year that we’ve ever recorded," says Rightmove.
Buyers rush to seal deals amid fears of stock squeeze
Boutique agency reports another flurry of high-end sales in and around St John’s Wood - which continues to be one of the most popular areas of London for prime buyers
Regional fortunes have been turned on their head – Acadata
Index records 'dramatic' shift in price growth pattern across England & Wales, as London & the South East surge
Buyers spent a record-breaking £11.6bn on prime London property last year
Buyers ‘bought bigger and spent more’ in 2021, reports LonRes - and sales volumes are set to surge again over the coming weeks…
Colliers predicts a return to more normal house price growth
"Following a bit of an exodus from cities during the pandemic we saw prices in regional areas start to soar, but that will stabilise this year," predicts Colliers' Head of Residential - "although areas…
Second home tax loophole closed
New rules mean holiday lets must be rented out for a minimum of 70 days a year to qualify for lower local tax rates.
Holiday lets boom ‘crippling’ local rental markets
Countryside charity CPRE estimates there has been a 1,000% increase in homes listed for short-term let across the UK over the last five years
Watch: Hollinrake proposes a new wealth tax on non-resident property owners
MP and former estate agency boss Kevin Hollinrake has outlined a series of proposals to make Britain's housing market more fair and equitable - including a new wealth tax on overseas buyers of UK property
Government launches new biodiversity net gain consultation
Latest proposals are designed to ensure developments are ‘nature positive’, with biodiversity gain ‘at the heart of all decision-making and design’
London & Cornwall vie to be Britain’s most searched-for property location
Rightmove recorded just 3% more property searches in London than in Cornwall through 2021, compared to a gap of 24% in 2020, and 49% in 2019.
Super-prime buyers splash out on north London’s park-side mansions
The handful of large houses in the capital with direct access to parkland are in huge demand, reports Arlington Residential, after selling a £22m example in Primrose Hill