The Market
Will leaving the EU cut regulation for landlords?
Cutting ties with Europe represents a huge shift for the Private Rented Sector
Cooling measures spread as global prime property price growth escalates
Vancouver is the latest global real estate hotspot looking to curb property price inflation (following the lead of Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and more), bringing in a really quite chunky 15% levy…
Caution and opportunism collide in post-Brexit PCL
Five weeks on from the Big Vote, top London buying agency Black Brick reports that its clients are falling broadly into two categories...
Architects come up with 20 ways to ‘tackle the housing crisis’
The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has set out a hashtagged batch of proposals to deal with what it calls "the UK’s dire housing crisis".
Uncertainty hits New York’s townhouse market
London isn't the only place having a tough time of it.
Let The Games Begin: Short-term accommodation and the law
In the UK, the short-letting business really came to the fore with the London Olympics
Global house prices ‘almost back up to where they were at the start of 2007’
Global house prices are, on average, "almost back up to where they were at the start of 2007" trumpets the International Monetary Fund with its latest index.
Carrington on Q2: When you are presented with figures such as these over a relatively short period, then something is wrong
LonRes Chairman reviews the London market in Q2
Westminster’s anti-iceberg basement rules are now in play
Westminster Council's anti-iceberg rules came into effect this week, making it exceptionally difficult to create big-scale basement extensions in the borough.
Refurbishment Road: How to save 57% on a same street property
A canny PCL agency has identified some prime Westminster streets where savvy buyers can "save" almost 60% by opting for a refurb project over a luxury new-build.
Forget Super Thursday, the Bank of England can only offer Mildly Useful Thursday
Today's interest rate cut by the Bank of England isn't the big economic solution we need, argues the University of Cambridge's Michael Kitson...
New PCL rental supply jumped by 49% in Q2 – Knight Frank
There's lots happening in prime central London's rental property arena, says Knight Frank: newly-agreed tenancies are on the up, viewing numbers are soaring and supply levels are leaping, but both rental…