The Market
Westminster’s Super-Home Squeeze: PCL council moves to limit the size of new homes
Westminster lays out tough new affordable housing regime and reacts to 'global demand for super-size properties' by proposing a 150 square metre cap as part of its ambitious 20-year strategy
Pryor tips house prices to fall by 4% next year
Outspoken buying agent and market commentator makes his predictions for 2019
Real rents have fallen in six out of eight regions over the last decade
Hamptons has compared average rents with the Consumer Prices Index from 2008 to today
House price growth rebounds; ‘not all doom and gloom’, says LSL & Acadata
Index records only the second monthly increase in the last eight months; annual growth still at six-year low
Watch: UK property market continues to meander into Autumn
Property finding agency Garrington shares its views on the Autumn market, with a quick round-up of Budget measures affecting the prime resi sector and a top-line summary of the big market indices and buying trends.
There are 211 fewer estate agency branches on the high street than in January
Pubs, electrical shops and estate agencies have seen the biggest declines as high street businesses struggle, according to new data
The proportion of renters intending to buy a property has doubled this year
A survey by the AA indicates that there's been a significant rise in the number of renters planning a move onto the property ladder, and buyers are "preparing to spend more"
Over 10% of rental properties listings are ‘likely to be advertised unlawfully’
Discriminating against DSS tenants "is hardly any different" to racism, declares National Housing Federation chief
Over half of prime London valuations are being marked down by surveyors, warns Coutts
Over the last 12 months, 52% of valuations in the capital's prime markets were revised downward before purchase, according to the Queen's bank, with average revisions ranging from 2.2% to 7.8%
Neighbourhood Watch: How local market performance is varying wildly across Prime London
The average price decline since 2014 now stands at just under -15% across Prime London, but new analysis shows how Fulham and Earls Court have sunk by more than 23%, compared to an average of 6% in Wimbledon…
Surveyors are ‘doubtful that UK sales momentum will pick-up over the coming months’
RICS's October market survey tells of continued declines in residential property demand, prices and sales
Ministers step up to review tax ‘loophole’ for second homes
Many holiday lets are not "genuine businesses", says the Government, and so should not be able to claim Business Rates Relief