The Market

Bob Dylan - with a little help from James Wyatt - explains how the world of estate agency and property valuation is changing

The rise of joint-agency instructions is promoting mis-pricing at the top-end of the market, argues Wetherell

164,000 homes were completed in England in 2015/16. This is more than in recent years, but still below the 2007/08 pre-recession peak of 200,000

Just nine £10m+ sales recorded across prime London during Q1, reports Turnbull Property

3% of all tax receipts come from stamp duties

'Intuitively, a bubble (and this applies to any asset, not just real estate) exists when the price of an asset is over-inflated relative to some benchmark.

Sale values rise for the first time since 2014

Not really, concludes Cluttons

Vendors increasingly in competition with their neighbours, says Hamptons

27,000 new homes in the capital are yet to find a buyer, according to Molior data

Since 2011, super-prime buyers have spent over £1.5 billion at just five exclusive addresses in the capital...

International and indirect divisions hold up better, but 2017 is expected to be "significantly weaker" than last year