The Market

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

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...

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

The value of the UK's "residential operational real estate" sector - combining build-to-rent, senior living and student housing - is set to quadruple, forecasts Savills, hitting £880bn once fully mature…

HMRC's provisional seasonally-adjusted transaction count came in at 89,810 last month, down 6.4% on April and by 11.3% on May 2018

Indoor air can be far more polluted than outdoor air and was responsible for 3.8 million premature deaths worldwide in 2016;

The Financial Times does a deep dive to find out if the London property market is really bottoming out

After a decade of runaway price inflation, radical rent controls are slated to come into force in January (if approved), and be back-dated to June 2018

Westminster Council has published a raft of new policies designed to make the Prime Central London borough more liveable, better for businesses, and more sustainable, opening its City Plan 2019-2040 up…

Average house prices in the UK increased by 1.4% in the 12 months to April 2019, down from 1.6% in March 2019

'There’s effectively three years’ worth of people who haven’t put their house on the market, creating a "Brexit bottleneck" which will lead to a sharp correction when they do'

"Whilst the property market has been buffeted over recent months, there is growing evidence to suggest conditions are normalising," says national buying agency Garrington in its latest market review, which…