The Market
Record year for Scottish estate market
Resi and lifestyle buyers have been picking up swathes of spectacular countryside amid the pandemic.
Foyers hold the key to boosting apartment values, says PCL agency
Aston Chase estimates a refurbished entrance can boost values in older apartment buildings by up to 15%.
Overseas landlords ‘undeterred by Brexit’ as numbers hit five-year high
Favourable exchange rates and the stamp duty holiday have spurred many into action.
Mapped: Super-prime lettings deals across PCL
Demand in the £5,000 per week range hasn’t been dented by the pandemic, reports Knight Frank, although travel restrictions have kept a lid on deal volumes so far in 2021.
Ranked: The fastest moving markets in England & Wales
Properties in some areas are finding buyers significantly more quickly than they were a year ago, reports Zoopla.
London’s super-prime lettings market surges
Another agency is reporting a significant pick-up in top-end rental activity.
Agency ranks best prime postcodes for ‘snagging a relative bargain’
WC1H in Bloomsbury offers the ‘biggest property price bargain’, according to Benham & Reeves.
The Times: Should we follow the Kiwis and try to burst the house-price bubble?
‘New Zealand is innovating again’, writes David Smith in this opinion piece for the Times looking at how the Ardern government is dealing with a soaring real estate market.
Prime Central London ‘has now bottomed out’ – Savills
Back to work plans are boosting demand for town and city homes, says Savills, but the country house and coastal property markets are still riding high.
Ranked: London’s ten most expensive streets of 2020
Upper Phillimore Gardens in Kensington has been named London's most expensive address of last year, with a median sold price in 2020 of £28 million.
One in nine properties sold above asking price in February, but more deals are taking longer to complete
The number of properties selling for more than their asking price increased to one in nine (11%) in February, according to Propertymark - the highest level since August last year, and the highest February…
A chronic shortage of supply has put sellers in the driving seat
The first few good houses to hit the market this spring are going to do very well indeed, writes country buying agent Robin Gould