The Market

"Many new [residential development] sites are being soft marketed to test the appetite in the market," reports Savills, "and some have been launched now avoid competition with other sites later in the…

Bridging the gap between buyer expectations and seller sentiment will be one of the major challenges in the months to come, writes Richard Adamson...

If a stamp duty holiday is designed to help kick-start the economy, is that not a tacit acceptance of its flaws as a tax, asks Tom Bill...

More positive noises from the front line as Chestertons reports a 46% jump in new applicants and takes another look at its price predictions for 2020;

Targeting PEPs and oligarchs has proven ‘much more difficult than expected’

House prices are likely to fall by 7% as a result of Covid-19, predicts Oxford Economics - but the risks are "heavily skewed" towards much, much bigger price falls of almost 40%...

The number of properties going under offer in June was just 5% below last year’s levels, reports LonRes, while achieved prices were only marginally down...

"Property prices are critical to UK prosperity," writes Professor Alexander Tziamalis.

The 33-year-old firm developing two of London’s landmark prime resi schemes saw a threefold increase in sales enquiries in H1 2020, and is expecting demand to rise as supply levels shrink

New Scottish property tax rates come into play on Wednesday (15th July), running until 31st March 2021.

Record levels of traffic and enquiries were recorded on the major property portals following the Chancellor's SDLT tax cut announcement.

Average values have now fallen by -4.6% on an annual basis, reports Knight Frank, but demand is building just as supply levels start to slow...