The Market

Combining period features with timeless layouts and high build quality, Victorian houses are as sought-after as ever, says Strutt & Parker's Barclay Macfarlane.

Prime rents in the Home Counties dropped by 0.3%in 2015's final quarter, says Knight Frank, leaving rent values 4.3% up on the year. Q4's decline followed a 0.

The Council of Mortgage Lenders estimates that gross mortgage lending reached £19.9bn in December. That's is 3% lower than November's £20.5bn, but 23% higher than December 2014's £16.2 bn.

108,710 residential deals went down in December, according to seasonally-adjusted numbers from HMRC. That's a 1.9% increase on November's number, and a chunky 11.6% above last December's tally;

The current situation facing the UK property market demonstrates the perils of government intervention, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

On the whole, London's Emerging Prime districts performed slightly better than their Prime counterparts in 2015, according to Douglas & Gordon's latest figures.

According to the - pretty roasting - heat map below, virtually every borough in Zones 1 and 2 turned in a 4%+ annual increase in average rental values last year.

Demand for residential properties rose in December to a three-month high, with anecdotal evidence suggesting that a buy-to-let rush ahead of April's 3% SDLT levy is at least partly to blame, says the Royal…

Kensington & Chelsea Council is to start publishing the pre-application advice given by its planning officers.

Britain's biggest estate agency Countrywide has reported an "encouraging" Q4, despite the general slowdown in transaction volumes and uncertainty around buy-to-let stamp duty and mortgage interest relief.

Average values in prime central London ended 2015 up 1% after a flat December, according to Knight Frank's year-end tallies.

Kevin McCloud's development firm HAB Housing has launched an interesting high-end project on a hillside site near Oxford.