The Market
‘An exceptional year’: Savills’ Crispin Holborow on 2020’s ‘rural renaissance’
People are once again rediscovering just how well the English country house works for a family, says Savills’ super-prime country house specialist, as sales of top-end estates hit their highest level…
UK house prices to fall next year – JLL
Agency expects prices to dip in 2021, before rising ‘quickly and steadily’; transactions to remain well down on pre-Covid predictions
Mortgage approvals climb to highest level since 2007
The latest Bank of England figures show a continued increase in mortgage lending since the Spring Coronavirus lockdown.
Industry heavyweights urge Chancellor to extend the Stamp Duty holiday
A raft of property industry players have penned an open letter to Chancellor Rishi Sunak, entreating him to extend the Stamp Duty holiday for another six months, and taper the end to avoid a "cliff-edge"…
Ranked: Britain’s new million-pound street hotspots
The number of residential streets with an average property price above £1m has escalated by a fifth in the last years, reports Rightmove.
PCL prices have ‘fallen back to Earth’ despite activity surge – Coutts
"Prime Central London looks cheap," the Queen's bank tells its HNW clients in its latest property market report.
The two things a buyer really wants to know about a property…
Contrary to popular belief, buyers don't actually care how long a property has been on the market, says seasoned north London agent Marc Schneiderman...
These are the UK’s top five future housing development hotspots, according to Knight Frank
Knight Frank has identified five key locations in the UK that are most primed for major residential development in the coming years.
Stamp Duty holiday sales rush is hiding a polarising property market, warns Zoopla
“There is a large pipeline of sales to complete by Christmas and the 31 March 2020," says Zoopla's insight chief "– with an average 100 days to complete an agreed sale those looking to beat the stamp…
Over 300,000 buyers set to miss the Stamp Duty holiday, claims analyst
“Whilst the increased activity is undoubtedly a great boost for the property market both in strengthening prices and volumes, many of these transactions were predicated on the reduction in stamp duty…
UK house prices set to rise 14.5% by the end of 2024
London is likely to see the slowest rate of property price inflation in the coming years, according to some analysis of various property market forecasts.
Ellingworth on new-builds: A tale of two cities
The new-build market is like any other market, says buying agent Charlie Ellingworth - there are the excellent, the good, the indifferent, and stuff that you wouldn’t want to touch with the proverbial…