The Market

Official stats indicates that UK-wide house prices have risen by 6.2% in the last 12 months

Biggest March rise since 2007, reports Rightmove, on a par with last year's stamp duty-beating surge

Influential housebuilder reports robust demand with cancellation rates at normal levels; profits expected to be 'at the top of analysts' expectations'

'Pioneering investors will focus their attention on outer London in the year ahead'

'The days of the up-market developer of single houses are over' warns one of London's top buying agents in a Spring round-up of prime property markets and developments

In today's market, transactions succeed due to expertise, connectivity and the drive to outperform for clients, says Thomas van Straubenzee

61% of British buyers want to live by water, says Strutt & Parker

The Conveyancing Association publishes a plan to improve the moving experience for everyone

"The lull in moving activity appears stubbornly persistent", says the Council of Mortgage Lenders

Gazumping and bidding wars are back as a combination of pent-up demand, currency advantage and realistic pricing boosts transaction levels, notes top buying agency

The need-to-know for all buyers of leasehold properties...

Homeowners have consistently dominated over the last five years, says Hamptons