The Market

As of next week, landlords and letting agents in the UK will have to add detailed "right to rent" checks to their - already lengthy - to-do lists when granting new tenancy agreements.

The market moved away from typecasting the buyer as being a particular nationality some time ago and we can now add age into the mix, says Joe Burns.

The supply of available housing "has almost halved in ten years", according to the latest National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) December Housing Market report, with an average of 37 properties available…

It's still only January, but one of the biggest deals of 2016 has been confirmed up in Hampstead Garden Suburb.

There was a "significant increase" in the number of African and UK buyers from abroad in prime central London in Q4 compared to the previous year, says Strutt & Parker.

A comprehensive "Domesday Book" of all the public land in London has been unveiled online.

Galliard has released a fresh batch of units at its major new Canary Wharf scheme, including the pair of "opulent" duplex penthouses.

Multinational agency Engel & Völkers has reported a chunky rise in revenues. 2015's group commission revenues were up 36.4% on 2014's totals and hit 409.8 million euros, a new record for the firm.

Last week's Council of Mortgage Lenders numbers (reported here) show that gross mortgage lending for the UK is, overall, on the rise.

Transaction volumes and average values took another tumble in London last quarter, particularly - and predictably - in the upper echelons.

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