The Market
How stamp duty receipts have escalated over time
Stamp tax receipts have hit an all-time high, with 9.7% more coming into HMRC in April-October 2017 compared to the same period last year
Digging deeper into the UK’s housing problem
It’s not just the imbalance between supply and demand that's pushing pricing upwards, it’s also the cost of funding developments, says Charles Curran
Chancellor lays groundwork for a housing-heavy Budget
Philip Hammond says he wants to get 300,000 new homes built each year
Letter from the Country: Why today’s agents have to go beyond the call of duty
It's not all doom and gloom, but helping clients to find their perfect property is harder than it has ever been, says Jamie Freeman
Lex in depth: The false promise of a UK house building boom (FT)
What if a lack of houses is not the real problem, asks the FT's Jonathan Eley in an in-depth feature.
UK Market Snapshot: Six graphs on the current state of play
Where we're at, almost at a glance...
Few & Far: Scottish estate owners stay put, despite continued international demand
Half as many Scottish sporting estates have been bought this year compared to last, says Galbraith's Anna Henderson, but international buyers - particularly Europeans, and including the first Russian in…
The average UK property takes 96 days to sell
Properties in Edinburgh and Glasgow sell fastest, while Liverpool and Belfast take the longest time.
Relying on property instead of pensions could cost Britain £55bn over the next decade
The UK’s "obsession with housing wealth could be making the country poorer", argues an economic think tank
A temporary stamp duty cut ‘would encourage over a fifth of recent home buyers to move again’
A survey estimates what effect an SDLT holiday would have on home-owner behaviour
Building on Bitcoin: Cryptocurrency, blockchain and the future of property transacting
Will the owner of a £17m mansion in Notting Hill manage to pull off the UK's first Bitcoin-only property deal?
Resi sales pick up in London & across the country
7.5% more deals were done in London compared to the previous quarter, according to LCP's analysis of the latest Q3 2017 Land Registry data