The Market

Ten years in the making, a fundamental shift to succession rules in most EU countries will come into force next year.

A league table of local estate agents' performance has been launched to 'help property owners make an informed decision' and drive business for local independents with skinny marketing budgets.

Ed Balls has detailed just how Labour's Mansion Tax would work, should the party get lucky in May.

There's value in prime central London's £2m-£4m bracket if you take a longer term view, says D&G Asset Management.

Capco has made its first foray into the luxury rental market in Covent Garden, with a new scheme on Southampton Street.

London's housing landscape is "not going to be back to normal until the end of the decade," argued a top housing professor yesterday.

No change for prime Scottish country house prices last month, leaving annual growth down to it's lowest level of the year, +1.4%, according to the latest from Knight Frank.

The only surviving remnant of the Royal Palace of Esher has become available to rent for £15k a month.

With Carney in a bugger's muddle over interest rates, let's hope 'the medicine does not kill the patient’, says Trevor Abrahmsohn... I despair.

Louise Hewlett has just launched an independent property company

Boris Johnson has kicked off the inaugural MIPIM UK conference with a rabble-rousing keynote speech, criticising the 'xenophobic left-wing commentators' calling for a clampdown on overseas investment.

Prices above £2m have stalled, concurs Douglas & Gordon, but argues that we may not have to wait until May to see them rise again...