The Market
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
Build-to-Rent, student housing & retirement living present a £700bn investment opportunity says Savills
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…
Resi transactions slide 11.3% annually
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
From Paris to Shanghai, citizens are largely unaware of indoor air pollution risks
Indoor air can be far more polluted than outdoor air and was responsible for 3.8 million premature deaths worldwide in 2016;
FT: Is now the right time to buy property in London?
The Financial Times does a deep dive to find out if the London property market is really bottoming out
Berlin moves to freeze rental prices for five years
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