The Market
Ranked: The world’s most expensive cities in 2019
Hong Kong tops CBRE's list once again, with London down in eighth place. 30 of the 35 profiled cities have seen residential real estate values rise in the last year, led by a Spanish property boom.
‘Astute buyers are revelling in the confusion & making well-informed, strategic purchases’
"The UK property market has remained in a state of flux over the last month due to the ongoing uncertainty which the country faces over Brexit," says buying agency Garrington in its latest monthly video…
‘Over a quarter of Londoners are looking to leave the UK capital within the next two to three years’
51% of Londoners think the capital is "too stressful", according to a survey by Berkeley Homes
London’s HNW advisors reveal post-Brexit fears
Majority of intermediaries in the property and private wealth communities expect a 'sharp decline' in the number of international HNWIs calling London home, according to a new sentiment survey
Savills launches its first Scottish city lettings department
Charles McCosh has been recruited to run the Edinburgh lettings team
Property prices fall for an eighth month as the ‘Brexit impasse continues to challenge the market’
Supply, demand and deal numbers continued to dwindle in March, reports the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors
Labour moots centralised targets and controls for house price growth
Bank of England could set targets for property price inflation, says Shadow Housing Minister John Healey, managing the market through tougher lending restrictions.
Developer pitches Islington Square as ‘the new Covent Garden’
£400m reinvention of the North London Royal Mail site promises to put Islington on the new-build buyers' map
IMF creates an ‘early warning system’ to predict the next house price crash
The International Monetary Fund's House Prices at Risk tool is designed to flag property markets at risk of significant price drops at least a year before the market turns
Talking Heads: Four thoughts on overvaluations
After an investigation into the scale of overvaluations in the UK property market concluded that thousands of vendors were being "misled" by some of the biggest estate agency chains, four industry experts…
HMRC hasn’t investigated many estate agents over money laundering
'Everybody’s talking about money laundering but it seems like nobody’s doing anything about it' says law firm Fieldfisher after finding out exactly how many investigations have been carried out in…
Knightsbridge agency reports massive surge in lettings deals
Harrods Estates has handled 78% more rental transactions in Knightsbridge in the last 12 months compared to the previous year