The Market
Green Belt ‘threats’ double in a year
443 sites currently earmarked for housing within the London Metropolitan Green Belt, says action group, up from 203 last year
PCL “is moving towards recovery mode” as higher SDLT rates are assimilated into the top-end
Transaction volumes are up by nearly 10%, says Knight Frank, as accidental landlords look to sell up
The ONS’ miscalculation of a crucial labour cost figure could lead to “one or two” extra interest rate hikes
A blunder by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) in which it miscalculated a crucial measure of labour cost inflation could lead to Bank of England policymakers signalling the need for "one or two"…
Higher rates of stamp duty are likely to stay, says Savills
SDLT income is "just too valuable to the Treasury"
The Greater Fool: Can Britain really cope with a fall in housing prices?
"The UK may need to wean itself off its property addiction, but it also needs to sustain confidence in the single asset class that counts for almost two thirds of its wealth"
Help-to-Buy is helping high-earners
The £7bn initiative is "being used by investment bankers and doctors"
Has the “death knell” been sounded for the great British bungalow?
Specific, unaddressed housing shortage has huge implications for the future, says agency
The Vancouver Experiment: A year on from the foreign buyer tax, how is the market performing?
Has an extra 15% charge on foreign buyers cooled Vancouver's runaway housing market? And will other cities follow suit?
Global property price inflation eases as price growth slows in China
Knight Frank's Global Residential Cities Index increased by 6.1% in Q3, down from 6.9% in the previous quarter
Theresa May’s speech and the challenge to expand English social housing
Professor Kenneth Gibb explores the reality of delivering mass affordable housing
Carrots & Sticks: What do London’s new affordable housing measures mean for developers?
Hard cash and tough new policy changes have been promised recently; but will the combination work and what are the practicalities for those we're relying on to deliver?
Developers are ‘on track’ to deliver one million new homes by 2020
More units are being built, says Savills, but we need more development in the South East