The Market
Best of the West: The country house sales that stood out in 2020
Some dream country houses changed hands across Devon, Dorset, Cornwall, Somerset and Wiltshire in 2020, notes buying agent Robin Gould - including a Medieval ‘sleeping beauty’ and a once-in-a-generation…
On this year’s key buying trends and the outlook for 2021
Buying agent Sara Ransom reports on what London buyers have really been after this year, and predicts which areas will be in demand on the other side of the Christmas holidays...
Jersey’s property market picks up pace
"People are offering the asking price after walking through the door," says island estate agency Wilsons Knight Frank.
Heatmapped: London & national house price growth
Higher rates of inflation in the south of England and on the outskirts of London are still the overriding themes.
‘Plenty of fuel left in the tank for the housing market’: Rightmove predicts 4% growth for asking prices in 2021
Property portal's forecast of 4% house price inflation in 2021 is "more conservative than the unsustainable 6.
‘There is mounting evidence that rental growth is picking up steam’ – Hamptons
Landlords accounted for one in every six agreed sales last month, as investors rush to take advantage of the Stamp Duty holiday in a small-scale re-run of 2016.
Why house prices are unlikely to crash next year
There is an assumption that when the furlough scheme ends, unemployment will spike and house prices will crash. However, 2021 is likely to be far less straightforward, writes Tom Bill...
Record highs for housing demand & rental supply
Propertymark reports that 2020 saw more home-buyers register and more sales agreed per estate agency branch than any other year of the last decade.
More global markets see house prices begin to fall
The percentage of international property markets registering an annual fall in mainstream residential prices jumped from 2% in Q1 2020 to 16% in Q3 2020.
CGT ‘cash grab’ could harm wider economy, warns investment firm
London Central Portfolio says Rishi Sunak should avoid being tempted by a 'short-term tactical ploy', or risk a negative trickle-down effect...
Buying Agent: ‘There is real scope for there to be a whirlwind of activity in the first quarter of next year’
Who could have anticipated that 2020 would prove to be one of the best years for those operating in the prime property market, writes Ed Heaton as he runs through some of the key trends to emerge in both…
Surveyors: ‘There is considerable concern about the prospect of a sharp slowdown in transaction activity’
The pace of property demand growth "does appear to be losing a bit of steam and slowing", reports the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors, as house prices continue to rise.