The Market
Ranked: The most expensive places to buy in the UK
Knightsbridge tops new Rightmove rundown of priciest areas, with an average asking of over £3.5m, while Virginia Water leads the pack outside of London...
Four areas have seen the average house price rise by more than the average salary in the last year
But three London boroughs have seen their average property value drop more than their average salary
The London property market continues to tick along relatively robustly – and here’s why…
An awful lot of buyers who, having expected prices to fall like an anvil out of a window in a Tom and Jerry cartoon, are finding the choice of houses disappointing and prices far firmer than they had hoped,…
Looming global housing slump ‘could cut world growth to a decade low’
Signs of a global house price downturn are already visible, warns Oxford Economics
London needs a £4.9bn annual Government subsidy to deliver enough affordable housing
A new report indicates that London needs a massive seven-fold increase in Government funding to deliver affordable homes
PCL market gathering momentum as investors come off the sidelines – LCP
Latest update from London Central Portfolio shows a 37.9% jump in quarterly transactions - the biggest such rise in over two years...
High & Mighty: Touring the world’s record-breaking ‘super-penthouses’
List Sotheby's International Realty surveys the rarefied market for top-floor apartments measuring 10,000 square feet or more, revealing the biggest deals over the last five years, and the most spectacular…
On the increasing trend for rural diversification
Country buying agent Jess Simpson reports on an upsurge in demand for farms and land with the opportunity for diversification, and explains the impact of the Agricultural Bill’s new system to reward…
Scottish MPs approve ‘radical’ planning reforms
Scotland's new Planning Bill aspires to create 'a more inclusive and collaborative planning system'
New home delivery climbs by 13%
The number of EPCs issued across England jumped by 13% in the last year, says Savills, while the number of approved residential planning consents has bounced back
UK registers fall in number of foreign-owned properties
The first update since April's CGT rejig shows the total fell from 97,227 to 96,248 between January 2018 and May 2019, but campaigners have flagged up some interesting goings-on in Luxembourg...
Premiums and price growth in the UK’s top seaside hotspots
Jackson-Stops & Zoopla record premiums of 171% and 86% in perennial coastal favourites Salcombe and Aldeburgh, while Kentish hotspots outperform in terms of five-year growth