The Market
London’s super-prime buyers make their move as prices re-base
Bumper June sees £470m worth of £10m+ deals recorded, revised up from £407m and now the highest figure since December 2014 by a distance...
UK house price inflation slows to its lowest rate since 2013
The average property price in London fell by 0.6% in June, according to the official UK HPI
New Zealand bans the sale of homes to foreign buyers
'We should not be tenants in our own land', declares NZ Finance Minister
New mortgage activity dips as remortgaging takes centre stage
House purchase activity slowed in June but remortgaging activity remains high, according to the latest from UK Finance
Super-prime rental market hits ‘all-time high’ in north London as UHNW tenants shell out up to £40k pw
Values spike across St John’s Wood and Regent’s Park as overseas families increasingly opt for luxury developments over five-star hotels for their summer sojourns
Bumper year for top-end land and estates market as HNWI hedge their bets against inflation
£150m worth of prime rural estates have already been sold in 2018, notes buying agent Jess Simpson, with grand affairs in the south of England commanding the greatest premiums...
Property prices stabilise as transaction numbers dwindle
National transaction volumes are 6% below the seasonal trend, reports LSL, while London has seen a 7% drop in deal numbers in the last year
Mapping Prime London
The latest data from LonRes shows the proportion of £1m+ sales and the average weekly rent across the capital's prime postcodes...
The proportion of overseas landlords in the UK has halved since 2010
Although London has seen an increase in the last year, says Hamptons International
Landlords calling the shots in Prime London as stock levels slide
Rents and gross yields rise as competition ramps up amongst prospective tenants
Carrington on Q2: Brexit, Purplebricks & PCL
With the arrival of Kit Malthouse as the seventeenth incumbent Minister of State for Housing since 1997, one could say that this time, at last, we have someone with real experience of local government…
Rental markets surge in White City & Hammersmith as West London evolves
Rental activity is on the up in West London's Zone 2, as W12 and W6 emerge as destinations in their own right