The Market
Foxtons’ profits tumble by 65%; warnings of another ‘challenging’ year in 2018
Estate agency Foxtons made £41m profit in 2015, but just £6.5m in 2017 - and the current sales pipeline "is below where it was this time last year"
Market Snapshot: Hyde Park & Bayswater
A closer look at an area of PCL where £5m+ deals have been on the rise...
Top buying agency launches PCL property index – excluding ‘second rate’ streets
Property Vision aims to create 'the go-to index for a very specific area'
Dexters teams up with Stirling Ackroyd to sell East London new-builds
Stirling Ackroyd New Homes will operate under the Dexters banner, marketing new developments from Shoreditch and Clerkenwell to Hackney to Peckham
Khan ‘bitterly disappointed’ with lack of progress on property market transparency
London Mayor livid as ministers announce further delays to 'much-needed' public register revealing foreign ownership of UK properties...
Guilt Tax: Will it jive?
A rejig of Council Tax price bands could have worked - but probably not now, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
Manchester, Birmingham & Edinburgh tipped for 20-30% price surge
Regional cities have lots of room for growth over the next four years, says Hometrack, while questions surround the "sustainability" of pricing in the capital...
£1m+ sales volumes ‘surprisingly robust’
A million-pound-plus home was sold every 27 minutes across the UK last year, reports Savills
A 1% interest rate rise would cost mortgage-holders £10bn
A 1% rise 'would add £10bn to the UK's mortgage bill', says Savills, which works out at around £930 per year per mortgaged household...
The Chiltern Firehouse Effect? It’s been more of a slow burn in Marylebone…
Andre Balazs' A-list establishment is only part of the reason why Marylebone is now outperforming all other areas of Prime Central London, notes Knight Frank...
Super-prime Surrey enclaves outpace PCL as buyers search for landed mansions
'The prime Surrey market has become like that of Central London in several ways,' say Beauchamp Estates and Barnes Private Office
Opportunity Areas: London’s future housebuilding hotspots
Humberts assesses the potential opportunities and returns for residential developers in each of London's boroughs over the next ten years