The Market
Hard-bargaining buyers take advantage of uncertainty in Prime London
Vendors and purchasers spent much of Q1 on the fence, but those who did choose to buy were 'aware of their position and negotiated accordingly', reports LonRes...
Mapped: Achieved rents & ten-year price growth across Prime London
Granular analysis shows how the prime postcodes have performed over the last year, and decade...
Carrington on Q1: Sliding stamp duty receipts and a Brexit fiasco
SDLT was brought in to cool the market, but this one size-fits-all approach has neither worked for the London market nor the Treasury, says LonRes Chairman William Carrington
Home improvement applications dwindle, but extensions hold up
'The impact of Brexit and any shift in GDP is likely to reduce [home improvement] activity further', warns Barbour ABI
Number of offers made in PCL hits a ten-year high
Buyers are 'positioning themselves for life after Brexit', says Knight Frank
Buying agency calls London’s next prime property hotspots
Buyers would be well-advised to revisit these two 'overlooked' areas of the capital, advises Black Brick
Specialist off-market agency proves popular with SW London’s ‘Brexit sellers’
Mark Wells' Invisible Homes is securing more new instructions in Fulham than many of the big-name agents - so what's the secret?
Venice had its own ‘Airbnb problem’ during the Renaissance – here’s how it coped
The week's revelation that London now has one Airbnb listing for every two hotel rooms, together with new analysis of the platform's extraordinary impact on Edinburgh (the city's 12,000 Airbnb listings…
Bank of England revises down house price forecasts amid ‘Brexit-related uncertainties’
Political uncertainty, affordability constraints and policy changes have all taken a toll on demand in the UK housing market, warns the BoE in its latest inflation report;
Small construction firm workloads fall for the first time in six years
'A perfect storm of diminished consumer confidence, rising material prices and increases in wages and salaries' means that smaller builders are seeing less work, warns the Federation of Master Builders…
Build-to-Rent completions jump by a third to hit 30,000
The number of BtR homes under construction has escalated by c.7,000-8,000 each year since the start of 2015, reports Savills
Private housing props up construction sector growth – RICS
Private resi is the now country's strongest construction sector - but activity is lower than it was before 2016's EU Referendum, and SME firms are struggling with financial constraints