The Market
‘Cautious optimism’ returns to the market as property portal reports a start-of-year flurry
Asking prices, new listings and website traffic are all up, says Rightmove - but the traditional January asking price bump is still well below the ten-year average
The problem with using £psf to analyse development opportunities
Developers need to understand that we are in a very different market now, says Alexander Lewis...
‘Try before you buy’ tenants boost London’s super-prime lettings scene
"Renting becomes more accepted as a tenure model in the super-prime market", says Knight Frank
Buying in London for less than five years ‘doesn’t warrant the transaction costs’
HNWIs now seeing renting as a more commercial alternative, says buying agency
The £2m+ postcodes: Britain’s most expensive districts
There's more to a Golden Postcode than mere value, but these 12 addresses with an average price paid of £2m or more make up one of the world's most exclusive enclaves
Conveyancing volumes drop for the first time since 2011
Conveyancing volumes fell by 12% last year, from 1,077,959 in 2016 to 952,966 in 2017. It's the first annual drop in workloads since 2011, says Search Acumen, "reflecting a subdued property market"
Defining the key value drivers in property; why you shouldn’t mistake a good spec for a good scheme
The most valuable scheme to have ever sold in London had no services and a basic but elegant specification - but it offered space and scenery par excellence, says Alexander Lewis...
Nigerian government hotlines crash as UK property owners ‘panic’ over UWOs
Federal Ministry of Finance’s Voluntary Assets and Income Declaration Scheme inundated with 'frantic' HNWI in the wake of the UK's introduction of Unexplained Wealth Orders...
Welsh government pushes on with a land-banking levy
A new vacant land tax modelled on the new Irish system "could help to incentivise more timely development"
London’s property price inflation rate was below the national average throughout 2017
UK house prices increased at the slowest annual rate since 2013 last year, according to the latest UK HPI
International buyer activity in PCL is the highest in five years, but EU buyers are ‘gradually withdrawing’
55% of homes in Prime Central London went to international buyers in H2 2017, says Hamptons
TfL offers ten small sites to SME resi developers
Pilot plots for Sadiq Khan's "Small Sites, Small Builders" scheme aims to get smaller property developers involved in public sector site opportunities