The Market
Property Price Wars: Prime London buyers haggling average £178k off asking
While the market remains subdued, both as a result of extensive price rises over 2014 and it being an election year, realistic pricing of properties is crucial, as these findings by Lonres clearly demonstrate...
‘Pent up demand’ building in PCL as election nears – Knight Frank
Prime central London's property market - especially the £2m+ segment - has been in lockdown for the last month, says Knight Frank, as annual price growth hits a five year low and both vendors and househunters…
PCL rents rise faster than house prices – Knight Frank
Rents in prime central London saw their biggest increase in six months in April, rising by 0.5% to take a values increased by 0.5% in April, annual growth to 4.1% - a four-year high.
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Survival of the Fittings: On London’s luxury lettings market
Prime central London rents have risen year-on-year, but levels of tenant demand are falling on all but the highest quality and best presented properties, says Lucy Morton...
Oxford and Cambridge outperform as Londoners capitalise on house price gap
Uncertainty may be ruling the roost in London’s housing market, but it's a different story in other parts of the country, notes top buying agency Garrington.
Search for new Ombudsman gets underway as Hamer announces retirement
Christopher Hamer, better known as The Property Ombudsman, has announced he'll be stepping down at the end of the year.
Election Special: The prime property industry holds its breath
We don't need Jon Snow to tell us which way the property industry's election swingometer is headed;
Oxfordshire manor house with ‘the finest view in England’ hits the market
Lording it over what's been described as the best vista in the country, this Grade II listed Georgian manor house has just become available in a very stately corner of Oxfordshire.
Duty Bound: On the aftermath of Osborne’s SDLT reforms
Historically, SDLT rate changes have corrected themselves in the market through a natural process of adjustment;
Bricking It: Election outcomes & the UK property market
Cutting through the proverbial, Beauchamp Estates has distilled the four most probable scenarios we can expect to see emerge from Thursday's General Election, and predicted how each will impact the…
Tory triumph ‘could unleash a pent up multi-million pound wave of Indian investment’
A Conservative majority on Thursday "could unleash a pent up multi-million pound wave of Indian investment into the prime London residential property market," says NW specialist estate agency Rescorp Residential.
In Pictures: Diddy’s surprisingly low key New Jersey pad
Hip hop mogul Sean "P Diddy" Combs has re-listed this frankly rather elegant affair in New Jersey.
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