The Market
In defence of the leasehold system
Measures to prevent abuse are welcome, but let's not forget the leasehold structure has created and maintained some of our best loved urban landscapes...
Camden renews calls for 200% council tax rate on ‘ghost homes’
'At the moment, empty furnished homes left vacant are effectively protected by Whitehall rules'
Scrap stamp duty to free up the property market, say academics and Cabinet members
Replacing SDLT with an annual property tax could raise housing transactions by about 27%, claim academics
The UK’s total household wealth has breached £10 trillion
Each UK household has - if everything were equal - gained £143,059 since 2006
How much does a square metre of property cost in 2017?
20 areas of London now have an average psm price of £5,000 or more...
Home is where the heart(ache) is: Practical solutions for separating couples
How do the courts deal with the family home in separation cases, and what are the solutions available to both parties?
Property developers shelled out £2.1bn in s106 payments last year
“For smaller developers who are already struggling to find funding for their developments, these added costs can be the final nail in the coffin", says peer-to-peer lender
PCL deal numbers turn up – Knight Frank
The rate of price declines slows a bit, as demand and transaction numbers pick up
Decision Prime: Central London buyers ‘in a quandary’
Buy now and take advantage of lower prices and less competition, or hold off and risk missing out?
PCL lettings market balances out
Landlords regain some ground as stock levels finally subside
Chinese dominance of global property price growth ‘looks to be coming to an end’
Knight Frank's Prime Global Cities Index recorded 4.4% growth in the year to June 2017
Carrington on Q2: ‘There are better ways to deflate a bubble’
'The market is adjusting as it always does, but HM Treasury will bear some of the pain this time as they forgot that the London residential market is part of the economy, not a cash cow needing to be milked'…