The Market

Edinburgh's market is "still absorbing" the move to LBTT, notes Knight Frank, as prime property prices in the Scottish city nudged up by 0.4% in Q2. Annual growth has now slowed to +3.4% from +5.

Demand for property in prime central London has fallen by 3% since May, claims online estate agency eMoov, with over 60% of boroughs seeing drops of up to 37%.

"Investors in prime central London have reason to be positive this year," says London Central Portfolio, bucking today's trend for gloom-mongery.

Four of the country’s most informed property pundits took turns to assess and analyse the main threats and opportunities facing the UK's residential real estate market at the Economics Research Council’s…

Prime central London property prices are becoming "more sober" as annual growth has now slowed to just +2% - down from +8.

Halifax's annual look at the net worth of a square metre of real estate across the UK has shown RBKC to be tickling £12k per m2.

The average property price in England and Wales didn't move in May, leaving the annual change at +4.6%, according to the latest from the Land Registry.

The RICS is working on plans to introduce a new Homebuyers Report, without the valuation bit.

Galliard Homes will pull back the curtains on an ambitious new Rolfe Judd-designed project today, billed as a "Manhattan-style vertical village".

The RIBA's Future Trends Workload Index nudged up only very slightly last month, moving from +36 in April to +37 in May.

Here's a nice little animation from the ONS to show just that. There were only a very few south eastern pockets with a median house price of over £300,000 20 years ago;

The former home of shipping heiress Christina Onassis has just hit the market in Mayfair Village with a price tag just shy of £6m.