The Market
Tories launch ‘Scrap Stamp Duty’ petition
Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch calls SDLT a 'tax on aspiration.'
Monday Market Review: Key figures & findings from the last seven days
Your essential five-minute briefing, featuring data, forecasts and analysis from Chestertons, Knight Frank, Zoopla, Savills, Rightmove, Hamptons & more...
Westminster to grant blanket retrofit consent for Eaton Square
Borough's first Listed Building Consent Order promises to allow 'retrofit at scale' on London's largest residential square.
London property market ‘is gradually regaining momentum’ – Chestertons
Estate agency reports improved instructions, agreed sales, enquiries and viewings numbers in February.
Top brokers assess the Iran conflict’s effect on global prime property markets
Luxury property agents in London & Dubai report early shifts in buyer activity as geopolitical tensions escalate.
‘Who gets the bill?’ Opaque ownership poses challenge for government’s mansion tax plan
Report warns incoming levy could prove difficult to collect in prime markets where some legal owners are hard to trace.
Tom Bill: Middle East conflict clouds rate outlook and Budget plans
Energy price shocks are lifting swap rates, complicating the outlook for rate cuts and potentially squeezing the Chancellor’s headroom, explains Knight Frank's UK resi research boss.
UK housing market confidence ‘fragile’ as global uncertainties mount
Sentiment around London property price growth cooled sharply in February, according to the latest RICS survey.
Prime London Property Market Snapshot: Week 10, 2026
There was a spike in news sales instructions across London's prime postcodes last week, but agreed sales remained thin on the ground.
Rental pressure drops as supply & demand mellow – Zoopla
'Market conditions for renters are the best they have been for six years,' says property portal.
Bottoming Out? Why the prime Cotswolds market is now on the turn
Savills says top-end country house prices are 'starting to stabilise' after their post-pandemic correction, flagging particularly strong demand from American buyers...
New public register set to ‘expose secret land deals’
Government says new transparency regulations for property developers 'will help SME builders identify genuinely available sites sooner and compete more fairly in the land market.'