The Market

In the wake of the White Paper, Trevor Abrahmsohn offers some common sense solutions to the key issues

PCL transaction volumes bounce back a bit as half of vendors cut prices to secure a buyer

Housing White Paper targets land-banking, promises to promote SME developers, and promotes the rental way

Proposals to get more homes built faster and to boost the private rented sector are good, but are they enough to "fix the broken housing market"?

Annual decline now stands at -6.7%, with Hyde Park (-14%), Chelsea (-13.3%) and Kensington (-11.9%) taking the biggest hits

Conservative housing policy likely to shift tomorrow to put more emphasis on the rental sector

'One client who couldn’t afford what he wanted decided to buy a commercial property with permission to turn to resi instead, costing him £600 psf as opposed to £800 to £1,000 psf'

61 90-day orders issued since crackdown on illegal foreign ownership began in 2015

Up by 11% in London over the last two years as homeowners look to maximise space

Plans to offer financial incentives to encourage people to downsize in retirement are 'politically toxic' and 'insufficient in the face of the scale of the problem', argues Stacks' chief

Unfolding events in Belgravia raise some big questions

Canadian city with a runaway property market rethinks 15% additional tax