The Market

A £2m down-valuation? Don’t bet against it…

"We expect super-prime sales to end 2021 on a high," says Knight Frank, as it flags a significant jump in US$10m+ deals across seven major global wealth hubs so far this year.

Highest number of new applicants on record has coincided with a big fall in new instructions.

“It’s been an extraordinary period and I’ve never experienced anything like it," says Tom Stewart-Moore, head of Knight Frank’s rural business in Scotland.

Letting agents reported a record number of new prospective tenants per branch in June, according to Propertymark.

Capital-wide figure in Q2 was up 6% on Q1

Knight Frank expects the country market to remain hectic through the Summer.

Savills has upgraded its 2021 UK house price inflation forecast, bumping it from 4% to 9% - although the five year outlook remains largely unchanged from March's predictions, with research chief Lucian…

"The prime residential sector is likely to remain strong through the rest of the year," says Savills in its latest World Cities Index.

Zoopla's research chief Grainne Gilmore expects property price inflation to continue to accelerate in the coming months, "peaking at around 6%, before falling back to between 4%-5% by the end of 2021.

"More landlords have decided to leave having grown tired of dealing with tenants than they have because of various government tax changes," says investment firm Sequre.