The Market
UK asking prices hit all-time high as sales slide – Rightmove
Agreed sales so far in 2018 are down 5.4% on the same period last year, says the nation's biggest portal, with the biggest falls seen in the South East, the East of England, and Greater London...
MPs call for more sanctions against Russian oligarchs to ‘close the London laundromat’
Report accuses Britain of still 'turning a blind eye' to 'dirty money' from Putin's network
Carter Jonas looks to diversify its Model Estate to counter market uncertainty
Carter Jonas' "model estate" - a 3,168 acre notional agricultural estate which the firm has been tracking for the past nine years - dropped in value by 1.
Tories ‘came within a whisker’ of abolishing stamp duty
Plan to replace SDLT with CGT on all homes was due to be the centrepiece of PM May's big policy declaration last year, according to new revelations, even making it to the "last but one working draft"...
LonRes partners with Let Alliance to offer an ‘end-to-end solution’ for London letting agents
Property data resource and agents' network LonRes has teamed up with lettings services provider Let Alliance to offer "a new world of revenue opportunities" for letting agents.
One in six Londoners ‘expect to leave the capital within the foreseeable future’
London 'is set to lose significant portions of its most economically productive demographic', warns Grant Thornton LLP
City Hall proposes new compulsory purchase powers to boost London housebuilding
The Greater London Authority has published a 96-page dossier outlining ways to improve residential development land assembly in the capital
London’s riverside sales continue to rise as prices start to bottom out
Non-new-build riverside homes have seen prices fall by 13.6% since 2015, says Knight Frank - but deal numbers have risen by 3% in the last year
Pastor secures £23m of instructions in bumper fortnight
12-month-old leads come good for PCL agency
Viewings down by nearly a third in Central London – Winkworth
"It seems as though we have hit a slightly tough patch", says agency, revealing that viewing levels in Q1 were 31% below the same period in 2014;
New-build activity stumbles in central London
New-build starts fell by 25.4% in Inner London in 2017 compared with 2016, while planning permissions dropped by 7.4% and completions by 6.1%
Three quarters of English counties have fewer than 100 £1.5m+ homes on the market
Jackson Stops flags up 'chronic' lack of stock in the upper stamp duty bands; Surrey offering by far the most options for high-end househunters...