The Market
Just how bad was 2016 for London’s new-build market?
Full-year new-build sales figures make for some pretty grim reading...
The Times They Are A-Changin’: A valuation viewpoint
Bob Dylan - with a little help from James Wyatt - explains how the world of estate agency and property valuation is changing
Surcharge boosts stamp duty revenue to record level
Government collected £454m from the 3% levy on additional properties in Q1, but falling transactions are a concern
The Price is Wrong: ‘Incorrect’ property valuations soar by 70% in PCL
The rise of joint-agency instructions is promoting mis-pricing at the top-end of the market, argues Wetherell
Election housebuilding stats, fact-checked
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
Super-prime deals still few and far between in London
Just nine £10m+ sales recorded across prime London during Q1, reports Turnbull Property
What economics has to say about housing bubbles
'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.
Prime Central London prices turn up as optimism returns – JLL
Sale values rise for the first time since 2014
Is Brexit affecting home-movers’ plans?
Not really, concludes Cluttons
Properties are for sale on over a third of London’s streets
Vendors increasingly in competition with their neighbours, says Hamptons
Stamp duty receipts reach a record high
3% of all tax receipts come from stamp duties
Record number of unsold new-build units in London
27,000 new homes in the capital are yet to find a buyer, according to Molior data