The Market
Eurozone buyers ‘snapping up bargains in London’ as currency wobbles offer discounts
Euro buyers have been grabbing £26,000 discounts on London property, says Stirling Ackroyd, as EU Referendum nerves caused sterling to nosedive in June.
Khan slams BoJo’s ‘toothless’ Concordat
London's new mayor has laid into his predecessor's efforts at preventing the capital's homes from being snapped up by foreign investors, dismissing BoJo's flagship initiative as "embarrassing" and a "c…
Transaction uptick ‘shows a market finding its more natural level again’
The seasonally-adjusted UK resi property transaction count for May has come in at 89,700. That's up 1.5% on April, but 11.9% lower than in May 2015.
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‘Capital gains and rental values’ driving London’s Middle Eastern buyers
Cluttons and YouGov's latest survey of Middle Eastern investors has revealed some interesting findings on HNW buyer behaviour.
Mayfield gets go-ahead for luxury hotel-to-resi scheme in Bayswater
A transformation of the former Westland Hotel in Bayswater has been given the green light by Westminster.
Top-end developer Mayfield bought the prominent 0.3
Housing Hotspots: Where are two-thirds of properties on the market already under offer?
Economic catastrophising and European angst are no match for the basic laws of supply and demand, says Jackson-Stops & Staff, as the estate agency tells us that buyers are still snapping up properties a…
Prime Recce: Investigating the Kensington & Holland Park market
Savills has been delving into the Kensington & Holland Park market, the ultra-exclusive enclave of west London where average prices command a 25% premium over even the RBKC average.
Rare Notting Hill investment/development opp listed at £12m
A rather unusual development-slash-investment opportunity has come up on the Ladbroke Estate in the middle of prime W11.
London bucks the trend as national asking prices hit record high
Every region in the country apart from London recorded a rise in asking prices over the last month, according to Rightmove. The capital's average fall of -0.2% equates to £971 and is at odds with the 0.8%
At-A-Glance: A chronology of UK property tax tinkering
The slew of recent changes plotted on helpful chronology
£6m house ‘that pays for itself’ goes on sale in New York
A Renaissance Revival-style townhouse on the Upper West Side of Manhattan has been launched onto the market with a rather unusual sales pitch.
306 West 78th Street is being billed by agents Leslie J
London housing market in for ‘major shock’ after BTL tax hikes warns Deutsche Bank
A stark warning on the capital's "illiquid" housing market sent shockwaves through the financial markets yesterday