The Market

The agency's London offices registered more new buyers in the second week of January than during any week in the last fifteen years, with numbers up 92% on the same point last year...

Robert Jenrick's Housing Ministry says it is "committed to delivering the biggest change in building safety for a generation"; threatens to name-and-shame non-compliant building owners.

House price growth in the EU has been lumpy since the global financial crisis, while rental prices have climbed at a fairly consistent rate over the last 13 years...

This month, the Law Commission published its long-awaited proposals for leasehold reform, making a number of recommendations which could have major ramifications for the London property market.

Oxford Economics forecasts "sluggish" but positive growth for London property prices

£5m-plus sales soared by 78% in the final quarter as wealthy purchasers chose not to wait for the result of the General Election, reports LonRes

Key findings from Zoopla's annual "State of the Property Nation" include a marked upswing in estate agencies' sentiment, but there's continued uncertainty over the political situation.

Rightmove recorded its biggest ever December/January asking price "surge" in the wake of the General Election - led by more expensive "top of the ladder" properties.

Average rental payments across the country increased by 3.7% in 2019, and have escalated by 81% in the last decade.

UK regions saw a dramatic 51% increase in the number of "American-style" purpose-built rental homes completed in 2019, according to Savills, the British Property Federation and Molior.

Q4 was a record quarter for £20m+ deals in Central London, reports Savills, while December saw the highest number of £5m+ sales since 2014.

Architects got a bit more pessimistic about future workloads in December, but the Royal Institute of British Architects has spotted signs of improvement after an extended period of volatility...