The Market
Buying agency draws up a ‘definitive league table of post-Covid property hotspots’
National buying agency Garrington has compiled a "definitive league table of post-Covid property hotspots", assessing the best places to live in the "new normal" of 2021 and beyond.
Fall in transactions four times higher during financial crisis than pandemic
Comparison with 2008 'puts the impact of Covid-19 on the property market into context', says Knight Frank, suggesting that 2021 'may also surprise on the upside'
How the property market rebounded from one of its biggest challenges in history
West London agent Paul Cosgrove looks back on an extraordinary period for the capital’s property market, and explains why recent demand shifts are much more than a passing trend...
How Brexit is affecting removals: ‘We might advise customers to put their move [to Europe] on hold to allow for the dust to settle’
The removals business is flying as the UK's property market continues to romp along, says Anthony Ward Thomas. But Brexit has complicated matters for many international relocations.
Developer canvasses buyers on post-pandemic motivations
'People want more from the places they live, both in the physical bricks and mortar as well as the immediate external surroundings', says Canary Wharf Group after surveying 2,000 buyers.
Average London house price tops £500k for the first time
The pace of property price inflation picked up dramatically towards the end of last year, according to the latest official UK HPI.
Family Fortunes: How family home prices have shifted over the last four years
Zoopla reveals where family-size homes (3-5 bedrooms) have seen the biggest increase in price per square foot since 2016.
‘A proportional property tax would be a disaster’, warns Tory MP
"A proportional property tax would be a disaster" declares Anthony Browne - MP for South Cambridgeshire, a member of the Treasury Select Committee, and a former Europe correspondent at the Times and environment…
‘Monumentally beneficial’ Stamp Duty holiday ‘on course to save homebuyers £1.5bn’
The nine-month SDLT break is likely to cut HM Treasury's revenue by £1.5bn, says estate agency Keller William UK, having already saved property buyers £817m in tax payments.
Rees-Mogg thwarts Stamp Duty holiday extension debate
Westminster Hall debates have been suspended by Leader of the House Jacob Rees-Mogg "until further notice".
Forget macro-economics – the key driver in the property market is much simpler…
Rather than politics, currency fluctuations or legislation changes, the market’s sustained performance is actually being underpinned by an innate desire for progress in our lives, writes Giles Barrett...
Savills forecasts property price growth in most prime global cities
Of the world's major prime cities, Seoul, Berlin and Sydney are set to see the highest rates of luxury property price inflation in 2021, forecasts Savills.