The Market

Homes marketed with a south-facing garden are, on average, priced 7% above properties without;

Reports of Londoners fleeing the capital are just a reaction to lockdown, not a fundamental shift, writes Isabelle Fraser in this opinion piece for the Telegraph.

Any increase in demand for country living over urban location is likely "to be a one-off factor rather than a long-term ‘seismic shift’ in consumer attitudes," says Zoopla.

The UK's Covid-19 lockdown caused a dramatic slump in the number of new instruction and sales agreed, reports Twenty EA, but property exchanges appear to have been more resilient.

Agency body recorded the highest proportion of above-asking sales since 2016 in June, although well over half still went through below.

Where sellers are flexible and in touch with reality, deals have kept going when they might otherwise have faltered, reports PCL agent Nic Pejacsevich...

"The UK will officially be declared to have entered a recession next month," says Knight Frank's Tom Bill.

Edinburgh's prime property market has picked up more quickly than Scotland's country house scene since Covid-19 lockdown restrictions were eased, says Knight Frank.

50-branch agency provides some interesting insights on buyer and tenant behaviour in the capital, and how it goes about pricing new-build schemes...

Specialists from the worlds of acquisition and architecture offer their unbridled thoughts on the government's latest tweaks to the planning system...

Michael Johnson and the Social Market Foundation are calling for "tens of billions of pounds of new taxes to be levied on increases in the value of homes", with a new Property Capital Gains Tax replacing…

"A full house price crash [is] a distinct possibility," warns Oxford Economics as it assesses the potential fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic on global markets.