The Market

Thoughts on taxation, globalisation and estate agency commission from the LonRes chief

Number of properties let at £3k per week in Q4 was up 28% year-on-year

Rent rises to outpace property price inflation over the next five years

London will pick up in the second half of the year, says Lancaster University's Housing Market Observatory

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

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

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

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"?

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

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

'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'