The Market

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.

The combined value of the houses and flats sold in prime central London fell by nearly 25% this year, according to new analysis by LonRes.

The fringes of the capital should comfortably outperform prime central London next year, according to Marsh & Parsons, with Queen's Park and Tooting picked out as the "hot tickets".

Top-end developer Finchatton has given us a sneak peek at its latest international design project - a $24m, 7,775 square foot residence in one of the world's most exclusive resorts.

Newcourt Residential has bagged a rather lovely Victorian mews building just off the iconic Pantiles in Tunbridge Wells. Newcourt MD Karl Elkhadraoui

We may be nearing full festive mode, but it sounds like a couple of significant deals have gone/are going down in Mayfair.

There are currently 622,939 "property millionaires" in Britain, according to Zoopla's latest estimate, 75,796 more than there were in January. A 14% rise over the last year now means that 2.

"The news is bleak" says the Association of Residential Letting Agents (ARLA) and National Association of Estate Agents (NAEA) as it forecasts that home ownership will fall by 7% in the coming decade…