The Market
How to tackle London’s housing shortage? Ideas wanted…
The Mayor of London and New London Architecture are asking around for ideas on how to tackle the ongoing demands of London's housing shortage.
North London agents team up to launch new firm
There's a new name on the NW London scene.
Former Goldschmidt & Howland Associate Director Lee Cash has just launched his own West Hampstead-based agency, Oakhill Residential.
Weakness in PCL demand ‘to continue until at least September’
Six weeks on from the election and the capital's supply and demand levels remain way off-kilter, according to these reports from buying agents on the prime front line...
Geography Lesson: Redrawing the property market map
"Many local markets actually have a stronger correlation with a region other than the one in which they are physically located," says Savills' Neal Hudson, as he re-draws the UK property market map.
Housing market ‘showing signs of a modest recovery’ – CML
The housing market is "as expected showing signs of a modest recovery" says the Council of Mortgage Lenders, as the latest gross lending estimates show a fairly static picture through May.
Grand Registry: The top 50 recorded deals of 2015 so far
Not every property sale gets recorded by the Land Registry - far from it in fact - but of the top fifty most expensive deals that have been lodged so far this year (January to April), only four were…
University Challenge: £400m Ardent Portfolio hits the market
A £400m portfolio of student digs across 12 UK University cities is being offloaded by The International Mutual Fund.
Slowly Slowly Catchee Monkey: Abrahmsohn on the post-election market
It'll take a number of months for buying activity to reach the level that sellers assume is already the case, says Glentree boss Trevor Abrahmsohn...
Rent Rage: The secrets of an unhappy landlord-tenant relationship
High-end London lettings agency EJ Harris has trawled through its archive of client-tenant paperwork to draw up a list of things that are most likely to cause friction between landlords and tenants in…
Post-election estate agent hype ‘was perhaps overzealous’ – D&G
"Post-election, the jury is out on sales," says London estate agency Douglas & Gordon, "but we can conclude that estate agent hype was perhaps overzealous."
Global HNWIs gear up to boost their real estate investments
Nine out of ten global high net worth individuals are planning on either increasing or maintaining their directly-owned real estate holdings, according to a major new poll of wealth managers and private…
‘Political certainty’ drives asking prices to a new high
"The unexpected political certainty has helped to fuel a post-election price surge," says Rightmove, as average asking prices on the portal have jumped by nearly 3% in a month.