The Market

Surveyors reported a small dip in sales volumes despite rising buyer enquiries in October, as house-hunters struggled to find suitable homes to buy.

The annual rate of inflation across England & Wales has slipped to 4.1%, reports Acadata, but ‘there will be no price collapse as some had previously suggested’

There are people returning to Notting Hill because they thought rural life would be like Soho Farmhouse, says Dominic Agace.

Two-thirds of homes listed for sale on Rightmove are already marked as Sold Subject to Contract, up from around half last Autumn.

"Property in the capital’s most prestigious postcodes is overdue a recovery," says Savills, as it reveals its prime and mainstream market forecasts for the next five years.

“Build cost inflation is the most talked about topic in the land market at the moment, and it is anticipated that this will not ease in the short term," warns Knight Frank.

"I'm still unhappy with the principle of leaseholders having to pay at all" for the cladding scandal, said Michael Gove yesterday. "My questions is why do they have to pay at all?"

National estate agency Strutts is forecasting price growth of between 20% and 35% by 2025 across the UK, and somewhere between 15% and 35% over five years in Prime Central London.

After decades of sporadic development, all four corners of the famous PCL district are being transformed as a raft of ‘landmark’ projects finally take shape.

John Whittaker explains why the future will be tougher thanks to higher interest rates, or higher inflation, or both…

Latest quarterly stats from HMRC signal 'significant' activity at the top-end - and reveal the impact of the recently-introduced overseas buyer surcharge...

“It’s been an extraordinary period for the whole market in PCL,” says David Mumby, head of Prime Central London lettings at Knight Frank.