The Market

If 30,000 villages built 5-10 houses each, we'd have alot more houses, says top land broker...

Official stats indicates that UK-wide house prices have risen by 6.2% in the last 12 months

Full-year data from Land Registry reveals all-time low for transactions as prices hit all-time high

Biggest March rise since 2007, reports Rightmove, on a par with last year's stamp duty-beating surge

'Pioneering investors will focus their attention on outer London in the year ahead'

'The days of the up-market developer of single houses are over' warns one of London's top buying agents in a Spring round-up of prime property markets and developments

Influential housebuilder reports robust demand with cancellation rates at normal levels; profits expected to be 'at the top of analysts' expectations'

In today's market, transactions succeed due to expertise, connectivity and the drive to outperform for clients, says Thomas van Straubenzee

61% of British buyers want to live by water, says Strutt & Parker

"The lull in moving activity appears stubbornly persistent", says the Council of Mortgage Lenders

The Conveyancing Association publishes a plan to improve the moving experience for everyone

Gazumping and bidding wars are back as a combination of pent-up demand, currency advantage and realistic pricing boosts transaction levels, notes top buying agency