The Market
Stamp duty receipts slide by nearly £1bn
Last year's total of £8.55bn was a full £926m below the record £9.5bn collected in 2017, and marked the first decline in three years
71% of businesses are ‘considering investing in residential areas for their employees’
'The housing crisis is moving up the boardroom agenda and is now a serious concern in companies across the UK', says Strutt & Parker
Institutional PRS investment reaches record levels
A surge in North American capital targeting the UK's private rented sector indicates that investment is set to continue to rise, reports CBRE
Property industry confidence drops as developers rein-in future plans – BPF
A survey by the British Property Federation and Grosvenor finds that most real estate industry leaders are positive about Brexit's long-term impact - although the next 12 months are likely to be tough.
Mapped: Price and rental growth across Prime London
Latest visual from Knight Frank shows three-month price movements ranging from -4.2% in Aldgate & The City to +0.1% in King's Cross, with Belgravia posting the biggest decline in rental prices (-2.
Why Q1 2019 looks like the low point in the Prime London real estate cycle
When someone like Ken Griffin makes a splash, as he did earlier this month, we all need to sit up and listen, says Fraser Slater
London’s super-prime stock selling at fastest rate in three years
It's currently taking an average of just 12 weeks to shift a £10m+ instruction in the capital's prime postcodes, down from six months in 2017 and marking the shortest timeframe since the start of 2016;
Buyer confidence is picking up in central London, reports Winkworth, despite falling transaction numbers
Central London prices are 'starting to make a recovery after bottoming out in 2017', declares estate agency
The Art of the Mega-Deal, by Gary Hersham
Gary Hersham - founder of PrimeResi's No.1-ranked PCL Boutique Estate Agency in 2019, Beauchamp Estates - has been instrumental in many of London's most expensive ultra-prime property sales in recent years.
Property price growth in UK cities falls to 2.7%, dragged down by London, Cambridge & the South
Zoopla identifies a 'tripartite housing cycle' from 2009 to the end of 2018
Supply & demand rises – but deal numbers dwindle
'There is movement in the market' insists NAEA Propertymark
PCL prices and sales plummeted at the end of last year
Fewer than than 68 deals per week went through in Prime Central London during 2018, reports London Central Portfolio, while annual transactions across England & Wales fell by 3.