The Market

Property search agency Stacks has canvassed its senior types to come up with a series of mini-forecasts for next year. Here are some nuggets:

The vendor of a $38m Las Vegas penthouse is hoping to pique the interest of high-rolling buyers by throwing in a $250k Lamborghini hyper-car to sweeten the deal.

City/Docklands/Midtown-based agency Hurford Salvi Carr has been totting up the price movements across its patch during 2014, and come up with an average increase of 4% on the sales side.

Less than 6% of homes approved through Permitted Development Rights in major London schemes of 20 units or more have actually been delivered, according to some startling new findings.

Asking prices have dropped by 1.7% in the last month, says Rightmove, as the traditional winter slowdown kicks in. This year has seen prices of new instructions hitting the portal rise by 8.

Prime rents nudged upwards in Q3, says Chestertons as the firm forecasts a 3% increase for prime London rents next year. Q3 saw prime rents rise a touch by 0.

The idea of a Mansion Tax has been knocking around Westminster with intent for over five years now, since Vince Cable brewed up a scheme in 2009 to make taxation more fair...

Glentree boss Trevor Abrahmsohn makes sense of a rollercoaster year in the prime property market, and reveals his much-anticipated predictions for 2015... This year has been divided into a number of segments.

Prime central London buying agency Black Brick has given a fascinating insight into its business and market position, releasing an analysis of its property purchase and transaction data since it was…

It sounds like JLL has done a sterling job of shifting New Scotland Yard in double-quick time, and there's already been plenty of speculation as to the identity of the £250m site's 'mystery buyer'...

House price growth is back to its May 2013 level, says the RICS, as new buyer demand continued to drop in October.

"Politics hasn't completely stymied the market" says Douglas & Gordon, as the agency notches up a 100% increase in new business from August to October.