The Market
Momentum swings back to sales in the super-prime Home Counties
7.2% fewer super-prime properties were put up for rent in the Home Counties last year compared to 2016, report Knight Frank and Rightmove
Millennials’ home ownership hopes dashed by a broken housing market
The latest report from the Institute for Fiscal Studies provides clear evidence that getting on the housing ladder has become a distant dream for many;
The bottom of the prime resi market in London may have passed six months ago
'They don’t ring a bell when sentiments change from a Bear to Bull market, but if they did, the sound would be deafening!'
No more developer hospitality! Labour pledges to ‘clean up’ Westminster’s planning system
Council's relationships with developers under scrutiny as top brass accused of accepting a 'ludicrous' amount of hospitality...
London’s Development Hotspots: 18 areas set to out-perform
Knight Frank identifies key locations across the capital where best in class new-build schemes are most likely to out-perform mainstream markets
PCL prices are likely to bottom out at the end of this year, predicts Cluttons
2018 "to be a year of price falls" in Prime Central London
Motivation, Motivation, Motivation: Understanding the vendors that need to sell
Analysis of recent transactions prompts buying agency to propose an addition to the three D's...
Are the rich paying their fair share of taxes?
Are the rich paying their fair share of taxes, asks the Institute for Fiscal Studies' Helen Miller in this illuminating talk at the University of Manchester last year.
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Two London boroughs generating over three-quarters of ATED receipts
£126m of last year's £175m total came from Westminster and RBKC...
Government moves to overhaul the property ombudsman landscape
Consultation launched to improve the housing complaints and redress system
‘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...