The Market

An unusual proposition has come up on one of Hampstead's best turnings. Two adjacent plots are being offered on Redington Road, each with full planning permission for a chunky family residence.

Three weeks in to 2016 and it feels a bit like we've just unstrapped ourselves from a bizarre property-themed rollercoaster.

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.

One of north London's most important period properties has reportedly changed hands for £20m.

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.

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

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…