The Market

"I want to explore an option which would allow us to use the homes and properties of sanctioned individuals – as long as they are sanctioned – for humanitarian and other purposes," said Michael Gove…

In a market so driven by sentiment, a discernible dent in demand might be expected given the current economic and political backdrop - but it hasn’t materialised yet...

Greater London and the South East are back in the top four areas of house price growth for the first time since August 2020, reports Acadata

"Rental growth is slowing as affordability pressures bite," says Hamptons - which expects expect rents across Great Britain to end the year 2.5% up on 2021, down from 7% today.

International buyers owned c.£6bn more London property in 2021 than in 2020, according to some new analysis of Land Registry data.

"There is little evidence yet that the mood music regarding the expectations for house prices or rents is shifting," says RICS chief economist.

Two weeks on, we asked prime property insiders - including those who specialise in Russian clients - about what effect anti-war sanctions are really having on the London property market, and how their…

Nearly 250,000 planning consents were granted in England in the year to September 2021; a fifth above the pre-pandemic norm, and an increase of more than a third on the previous 12 months.

"None of my Russian clients have asked me to sell their properties in London or the Home Counties," says super-prime estate agent Gary Hersham.

The long-awaited Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Bill will be "expedited through all its Commons stages" today (7th March), four years after draft legislation was published.

Conditions may normalise as demand declines and supply is boosted by the arrival of spring, says Knight Frank’s Head of UK Residential Research…

Knight Frank is predicting continued price rises for international luxury property markets in 2022 - although the pace of growth is likely to be significantly lower than 2021's extraordinary performance.