The Market

The lettings team at Harrods Estates has landed a peach of an instruction in W1.

Knight Frank's Guildford office has just tucked away a rather nice country house deal.

In an unusual move, the landlord of a rental property on Mulberry Walk is tempting prospective tenants with carte blanche to completely redecorate a whole house.

Foxtons is reporting that a record number - 85% - of all its tenancies are renewing contracts.

"The number of Manhattan apartment sales greatly increased in the four weeks leading up to July 1," says New York real estate website City Realty from across the pond.

How's this for a soft launch... Over 1,000 buyers have already enquired about apartments in the soon-to-be-transformed Shell Centre, less than a week after the registration process began.

All this unpaid work is making life so tedious that it's almost not worth doing the job at all, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...

In stark contrast to what's being going on in the sales market, average rental values across prime London are now 7.4% higher than they were at this point last year.

Rental values in prime central London have dropped - albeit by the smallest of measures - for the first time since February 2014. July saw PCL rents fall by 0.

"Asian cities are rising up the rankings," says Knight Frank, as seven of the top ten cities in its Prime Global Cities Index are now based in the Asia Pacific region.

December's Stamp Duty reform probably hasn't had that big an impact on the £2m+ property market, argues CBRE.

Speculation is mounting over a potential sell-off of London's inner-city prison sites for resi redevelopment.