The Market

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...

Rather than choking off the demand for BTL investments, why not instead deal with the root cause of the housing shortage, asks Trevor Abrahmsohn...

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…

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,…

Prime London property prices dipped by -0.8% in Q4, reports Savills, taking the annual movement to +0.5%.

101,960 residential property deals went through in November (on a seasonally adjusted basis), according to the latest from HMRC. That's 5.

Thankfully it doesn't happen very often, but when the contractual time for completion has come and gone, what are the options for the non-defaulting party?

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.

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…

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.

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.

Former Knight Frank Partner James Heron has joined Strutt & Parker's Ascot and Sunningdale branch.