The Market

Activity really hots up in the removals business around this time of year, says the Master Removers Group, as Spring sales complete and families look to get settled in time for September...

"Housebuilders are increasingly competing for well-priced sites in optimal locations," says Knight Frank, but many vendors continue to wait for more political certainty

Current uncertainties around Brexit offer just the right conditions to strike great property deals, says billionaire Emirati developer Hussain Sajwani...

23% more tenants registered with the London estate agency in the first half of this year compared to last, but the firm listed 6% fewer homes to rent...

Latest visual from LonRes shows the spread of average rental prices per week and sold prices per square foot during H1 2019

According to buying agency Ludgrove's workings, a 36% reduction in Stamp Duty rates across the board would likely lead to 40% additional transactions in England per annum, in turn generating an extra £1.

A draft guidance note on "Measurement of Land for Development and Planning Purposes" is now open for consultation

"The tide is turning" in central London, reports journalist Anna White in The Evening Standard.

Successive parliaments have fiddled with stamp duty 14 times since 1995, but the right balance is yet to be struck, writes LonRes Chairman William Carrington

Transaction volumes in the capital's most expensive neighbourhoods were up by 3% in Q2, compared to last year, but buyers remain 'scarce' across the rest of the prime postcodes...

Rental transactions in some areas of London were down by as much as 20% in Q2, reports LonRes, citing high renewal rates as a key factor...

Britain's construction industry "will lose access to the lifeblood of its workforce" as a result of leaving the EU, warns Bloomberg journalist Olivia Konotey