The Market
Resi conversions up 40% in Q2
Q2 saw a 40% leap in the number of properties converted from office, retail, and agricultural use and into resi across England.
Outer London outguns PCL as ‘stamp duty stand-off’ stifles top-end transactions
The Land Registry recorded a monthly price increase of 1% in September across England & Wales, taking the annual change to +5.3%.
Heavy Duty: How the new SDLT system stuffed both ends of the market
The new SDLT regime is creating a boom and a bust at one end of the scale whilst raising less money for the government at the other; not such a clever move, says Trevor Abrahmsohn...
Realistic pricing ‘essential’ as overseas buyers lose appetite for PCL
Realistic pricing and domestic buyers are the key themes dominating the PCL market at the moment, according to the estate agency Winkworth.
China’s biggest resi developer makes NYC debut with Foster + Partners tower
Aby Rosen's RFR Holding and China's Vanke have kicked off sales at One Hundred East Fifty Third Street, a new Foster + Partners-designed addition to the New York City skyline.
Five key drivers of low housing supply
"House prices will keep rising and building more won't be enough," warns economic forecaster the Centre for Economics and Business Research (Cebr) as it bumps up its house price forecasts again, from…
Vendor invites buyers to ‘test drive’ £8.35m Marylebone flat
3,000 square foot duplex on Hallam Street offered up as a fully-furnished rental with no minimum term
Topping Out: Why London’s prime property boom is over
Owning a house on Pepys Road, the fictional London street in John Lanchester’s novel Capital, “was like being in a casino in which you were guaranteed to be a winner”, writes Deutsche Bank's Sahil…
MHA claims Bayswater price record on Inverness Terrace
Developer MHA London has officially debuted its new fifteen-unit development on Inverness Terrace in W2, revealing that nine of the apartments have already been snapped up pre-launch.
Cooling measures drive Singapore developers into UK & Australian markets
Seven rounds of cooling measures brought in by the Singaporean government between 2010 and 2013 have triggered a giant wave of investment overseas, according to new research.
Britain’s first million-pound towns emerge despite seven-figure sales slump
The number of £1m+ property sales slumped by 11% in the first half of 2015, but the regional picture tells a slightly different story, as average property prices in three towns breach the million mark…
‘Ability to Buy’ is ‘best in 13 years’ – Hamptons
The "ability to buy" a home has improved for the third quarter in a row and is now the best it has been for 13 years, according to the latest from Hamptons International.