The Market
Final Minimum Energy Efficiency deadline looms for landlords
Landlords have less than a month left to bring their private rented units up to EPC band E to meet the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standard.
Competitive bidding is now rife in PCL’s rental market
Knight Frank's lettings teams report a 50% increase in sealed bids as tenants face a perfect storm of soaring demand and depleted supply
Grand Registry: Surveying last month’s biggest registered deals
Hampstead Garden Suburb, Chelsea & Notting Hill saw the chunkiest transactions lodged with the Land Registry in January
Mortgage approvals recover to 2016 levels
Mortgage approvals for house purchase rose to 70,900, the highest since February 2016, according to official data from the Bank of England.
Questions asked over developer’s payments to former Homes England chief
Malaysian developer EcoWorld reportedly paid Sir Edward Lister £480k when he was in charge of the government's 'housing accelerator'
Radical stamp duty reform would pay for itself, says think tank
The Centre for Policy Studies reiterates the case for a wholesale rethink of stamp duty ahead of next month's Budget;
‘The London market is bouncing like a spring lamb, but keep your feet on the ground and don’t always follow the herd’
Reassured by safety in numbers, househunters have flocked back to the market at the same time, writes buying agent Guy Meacock - but they now face a very different landscape...
Housing demand jumps by more than a quarter
Estate agents report 29% more prospective buyers per branch compared to last year - but no corresponding rise in supply.
Ranked: Britain’s housebuilding hotspots
£57bn-worth of new homes have hit the market in the UK in the last year, according to some sums by Stone Real Estate, with Greater Manchester emerging as the "most lucrative" area for housebuilders...
How many deals are sealed after a single viewing?
Over 15% of one major agency's sales last year took place after the buyer had seen the property just once...
House prices in all English cities have now returned to 2007 peak levels
Average property prices across UK cities have increased by 3.9% in the last year, says Zoopla, but the portal "does not expect a material acceleration in the rate of growth in the foreseeable future.
Regional asking prices per square metre, compared
The average per square metre asking price in Central London's W postcode is £9,000 more than the average in Sunderland's SR postcode.