The Market
Buy-to-let SDLT surcharge consultation: Now open
The government cheekily chose a Bank Holiday Monday in the middle of the holiday season to launch a consultation into its scheme to charge an extra 3% stamp duty levy on second homes and buy-to-let properties.
Slew of super-prime deals for VanHan
Proving that 2015 definitely wasn't all doom and gloom, Thomas van Straubenzee and Rory Penn's top-end agency VanHan tucked away a raft of major resi deals over the last 12 months, averaging £16m apiece.
Uncertainty reigns in PCL after ‘disorientating’ tax changes
It sounds like vendors are starting to get the message that the market in prime central London has undergone something of a sea change
Number of Londoners leaving the capital hits eight-year high
Londoners bought 63,000 homes outside the capital last year, a chunky increase on 2014's figure of 38,000.
Why has Osborne got a bee in his bonnet about Buy-to-Let?
Rather than choking off the demand for BTL investments, why not instead deal with the root cause of the housing shortage, asks Trevor Abrahmsohn...
Grand Registry: The biggest recorded transactions of 2015
October and November saw another couple of mega-deals added to 2015's official ledger of transactions, although as we all know, most of the really big sales go on behind closed doors...
Crystal Balls 2016: Property market forecasts from the key residential research units
As another new year looms large, the residential industry’s leading pundits and analysts are unanimous about one thing: the property market is fragmenting, with micro-markets emerging in various locations a…
Crystal Balls 2016: Prime property pundits’ predictions for the year ahead
It's been a tough 12 months for the high-value residential property industry, with a General Election cleaving the year in two, fallout from a major overhaul of the stamp duty system quashing activity, a…
Allsop closes 2015 with bumper Christmas sale
Allsop has closed out 2015 with a £68.4m sale, taking the total amount of resi sold via the auction house this year to over £457m.
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Osborne ‘in for a shock’ when 2015’s stamp duty receipts are counted up – Chestertons
George Osborne is "burying his head in the sand" by ignoring industry calls to review last year’s changes to Stamp Duty and will "likely be in for a shock" when 2015's final receipts are added up, Chestertons h…
Short supply drives RICS’ 2016 house price forecast up to +6%
The Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors has bumped its property price forecast for 2016 up from +4.5% in November to +6% in its latest housing update.
Prime global rents post weakest performance in five years
Knight Frank has recorded a 0.9% fall in prime global rents in the year to September, a stark contrast to the 3.4% rise seen a couple of years ago