The Market
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
Super-prime deals still few and far between in London
Just nine £10m+ sales recorded across prime London during Q1, reports Turnbull Property
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
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
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
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.
Stamp duty receipts reach a record high
3% of all tax receipts come from stamp duties
Prime Central London prices turn up as optimism returns – JLL
Sale values rise for the first time since 2014
Why site sharing could be the key to freeing up the UK’s brownfield land
Top land broker puts forward an innovative solution for increasing supply...
Kensington’s ‘candy-cane’ townhouse can stay stripy, rules High Court
RBKC slammed for 'improper use of Section 215'
‘Unbelievable’ last minute changes to the Finance Bill put non-doms in limbo
Significant proposals dropped from Finance Bill 2017 at the eleventh hour cause uncertainty for taxpayers, says accountancy firm