The Market
Chelsea market recovers after ‘biggest price adjustment in London’
“Conditions are getting back to normal", says Knight Frank, as prices bottom out and buyers resurface...
Aristocrats lose their hold on Mayfair – but 30% of landlords are still ‘old money’
Mayfair's rental market 'has changed dramatically over the last 20 years' says Wetherell, as titled family landowners give way to professional investors and 'new money'
Westminster faces more tough questions over links with developers
'Ousted' councillors accuse troubled Tory-led council of more planning shenanigans
Councils are ‘sitting on’ £375m of unspent s106 payments
Affordable housing starts in London have 'miraculously' doubled, but many Council are 'sitting on' hundreds of millions of pounds paid by property developers to fund affordable homes
Trendwatch: Space for rural enterprise top of the wishlist for country buyers
Room to host festivals, rear specialist breeds or offer boutique accommodation has become the latest "must have" in the estate and farm market...
Asking price reductions on a third of UK listings
Twickenham named as London's 'price-cut hotspot', with reductions made on 42% of online listings, but the overall proportion is actually down on Q4...
Five ‘under-the-radar’ hotspots for property price growth
There's still activity in prime markets around the UK, says Savills, but some local hotspots have notably out-performed the regional or national averages in the last five years...
‘Non-banks are the new normal’ for SME housebuilding finance
LendInvest outlines three finance-based proposals that might help smaller property developers to build more homes
Sales of London homes under construction at three-year high
Price cuts driving new-build transaction volumes, but it'll still take over a year to clear the backlog...
London buying agency looks to Hong Kong after a ‘surge’ of interest from Asian investors
Black Brick is heading to Hong Kong to capitalise on an international investment trend
London house prices in negative territory for first time since the GFC
UK HPI: Annual rate of growth in the capital hits -1%, the lowest rate seen since September 2009...
Mortgage lending hits a ten-year high (for February) as remortgages boost the numbers
'Homebuyers have shaken off the winter blues,' declares UK Finance